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The Psychology of Inequality - Rousseau's "Amour-Propre" (Hardcover)
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The Psychology of Inequality - Rousseau's "Amour-Propre" (Hardcover)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and
social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies.
He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion
of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early
modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau's work and
reveals it to be a form of selfish vanity that mimics aspects of
Homeric honor culture and, in the modern world, shapes the outlook
of the wealthy and powerful as well as the underlying assumptions
of meritocratic ideals. According to McLendon, Rousseau's
elucidation of amour-propre describes a desire for glory and
preeminence that can be dangerously antisocial, as those who
believe themselves superior derive pleasure from dominating and
even harming those they consider beneath them. Drawing on
Rousseau's insights, McLendon asserts that certain forms of
inequality, especially those associated with classical aristocracy
and modern-day meritocracy, can corrupt the mindsets and
personalities of people in socially disruptive ways. The Psychology
of Inequality shows how amour-propre can be transformed into the
demand for praise, whether or not one displays praiseworthy
qualities, and demonstrates the ways in which this pathology
continues to play a leading role in the psychology and politics of
modern liberal democracies.
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