By Elena Pulcini,Karen Whittle
ISBN-10: 0739166573
ISBN-13: 9780739166574
The major argument is that passions are an important not just once they are powerful (homo oeconomicus), but in addition while absent or vulnerable (homo democraticus), in either instances generating pathological results at the Self and the social bond. eventually, the e-book underlines, in a normative point of view, that clone of the trendy person doesn't finish with the egoistical passions and that it's attainable to reactivate empathetic and solidaristic passions; moreover, it proposes the speculation that the (solidaristic) passions visit struggle the (egoistical) passions. this can be most blatant within the phenomenon of the gift (as interpreted by way of Marcel Mauss and his modern heirs), the “hidden” testimony of a desire for belonging that allows one to think about a brand new determine of the person: homo reciprocus.
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