Summary
Louis Dumont: Essays on Individualism
In Louis Dumont's collection of essays "Essays on Individualism" the problem of the scientific status of anthropology is considered, moving on the border between the history of ideas and the empirical ideal of anthropology. Examining the history of the origin of the idea of individualism, Dumont indicates that it arose on religious principles, above all on the one that orders the individual to withdraw from the world, renounce the worldly, so that later this ideal would develop from the individual outside the world to the ideal of the individual in the world. Dumont is particularly concerned with the analysis of nationalism and Nazism as extreme forms of individualism, and ends the study by considering the structure of the contemporary individualistic configuration and presenting the perspectives of anthropology.
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