Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future

Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future - Paperback

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Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future
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Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future - Paperback

Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future - Paperback

by Kevin MacDonald
$33.68
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Book Overview

Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition argues that ethnic influences are important for understanding the West. The prehistoric invasion of the Indo-Europeans had a transformative influence on Western Europe, inaugurating a prolonged period of what is labeled "aristocratic individualism" resulting form variants of Indo-European genetic and cultural influence. However, beginning in the seventeenth century and gradually becoming dominant was a new culture labeled "egalitarian individualism" which was influenced by preexisting egalitarian tendencies of northwest Europeans. Egalitarian individualism ushered in the modern world but may well carry the seeds of its own destruction.
ISBN9781089691488
Author Kevin MacDonald
PublisherIndependently Published
GenreHistory and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages598
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Kevin MacDonald is Professor of Psychology at California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901, USA. His research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in history and developmental psychology. After receiving a Masters degree in evolutionary biology, he received a Ph.D. in biobehavioral sciences at the University of Connecticut working on behavioral development in wolves, and he continued developmental research during a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois performing research on human parent-child play. His research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in developmental psychology. He has also authored four books, Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis (NY: Plenum, 1988) and A People that Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Westport, CT, 1998), and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Westport, CT, 1998).

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