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Informationen zum Autor BART NOOTEBOOM is Part-time Professor of Innovation Policy at Tilburg University, Netherlands. The author of numerous books and 350 articles he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Kapp, Gunnar Myrdal and Schumpeter prizes. He has been scientific director of two research institutes, member of a government committee on technology policy, and a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy. Klappentext This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this, it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations. Zusammenfassung This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous! disconnected! and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this! it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction What Avenues? History of the Self Free Will? Embodied Cognition Language Nietzsche: The Flourishing of Life Levinas: Philosophy of the Other Otherhumanism How Viable Is It? Notes Bibliography Index of Names General Index
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Preface Introduction What Avenues? History of the Self Free Will? Embodied Cognition Language Nietzsche: The Flourishing of Life Levinas: Philosophy of the Other Otherhumanism How Viable Is It? Notes Bibliography Index of Names General Index
