Essays on individualism: modern ideology in anthropological perspective / Louis Dumont

Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 284 pages; 24 cm. Contents:Part 1. On Modern Ideology -- 1. Genesis, I -- The Christian Beginnings: From the Outwardly Individual to the Individual-in-the-world -- 2. Genesis, II -- The Political Category and the State from the Thirteenth Century Onward -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham -- 3. From Church Supremacy to Political Sovereignty -- 4. Modern Natural Law -- 5. The Equalitarian and Possessive Implications of Individualism -- 6. Hobbes's Leviathan -- 7. Rousseau's ""Contract social"" -- 8. The Declaration of the Rights of Man -- 9. The Aftermath of the Revolution: Universitas Reborn -- 3. Genesis, III -- The Emergence of the Economic Category: A Reminder -- 4. A National Variant, I German Identity: Herder's Volk and Fichte's Nation -- 5. A National Variant, II The German Idea of Liberty According to Troeltsch -- 6. The Totalitarian Disease: Individualism and Racism in Adolf Hitler's Representations -- Part 2. Comparison Made Radical: The Universal Viewed Anthropologically -- 7. Marcel Mauss: A Science in Process of Becoming -- 8. The Anthropological Community and Ideology -- 1. The Discipline in Its Relation to Ideologies -- 2. Where Equalitarianism Is Not in Place -- 9. On Value, Modern and Nonmodern -- Works Cited -- Glossary -- Author Index. Subjects: Individualism History. Social Philosophy. Anthropology.