Introduction
Individuals-in-Relation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20054483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Regenia Gagnier (0000-0001-6351-5798, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Individualism, Decadence and Globalization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230277540_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2478511732 |
| ISBN | 9780230277540 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This book began with points to which I kept returning since I began to write on the nineteenth century and social theory. These included, first, Holbrook Jackson's description of the 1890s as "a decade singularly rich in ideas, personal genius and social will" whose "central characteristic was a widespread concern for the correct — the most effective, most powerful, most righteous — mode of living."1 Second, the compatibility in that period of individualism and socialism that has been increasingly difficult for later generations to comprehend. Third, polarized reactions to the excesses of modernization that could culminate, on the one hand, in political action to the point of physical force (William Morris) and, on the other, in hagiography and religious conversion (J. K. Huysmans). And fourth, the intricate dissection of relationships of symmetric and asymmetric mutuality. It also began with the experiments of people who attempted to live their lives creatively, as if they were works of art, and treated decorum as formed behavior, civility as formed interaction, beautiful objects as formed labor, beautiful Nature as formed matter, games as formed competition, ascesis as formed self, and, often, socialism as formed society, forming self-interest for the social good: people, that is, who embodied and performed detachment as both critical and aesthetic.KeywordsNineteenth CenturyMethodological IndividualismPhilosophical AnthropologyEthical SocietyFormed CompetitionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Aesthetics · Art · Decorum · Individualism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |