What is it about?
This article takes a critical and skeptical look at the widespread view, especially in European social science, that individuality and individualism mark primarily 'Western' developments. The skepticism is directed at both historical and theoretical findings as well as the empirical data on which such claims are based.
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Why is it important?
The considerations in this essay are important because they are closely related to general more recent efforts to highlight the ongoing colonialist and hegemonic efforts of European and North American science, which have less to do with epistemological insights than with power-political ambitions.
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This page is a summary of: Is the Individual an Enlightened Westerner? Some Skeptical Remarks on Eurocentric Notions of Self and the Development of Individualism, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53196-5_7.
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