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Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / John H. Riker.

Title
  1. Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / John H. Riker.
Published by
  1. Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2010.
Author
  1. Riker, John H., 1943-

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Description
  1. xiii, 177 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Kohut, Heinz
  2. Ethics
  3. Self psychology
  4. Psychology and philosophy
Contents
  1. The moral problem of modernity -- Kohut's theory of the self -- Kohut and the philosophic tradition -- A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut -- Why it is good to be good -- A self psychological vision of ethical life -- Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire -- Social transformations.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain