Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is
widely used by those who criticize and by those who praise Western
societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in
search of the emergence of 'the individual', by anthropologists
claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of
the individual or 'person', by philosophers debating what form
social science explanations should take and by political theorists
defending liberal principles. In this classic text, Steven Lukes
discusses what 'individualism' has meant in various national
traditions and across different provinces of thought, analyzing it
into its component unit-ideas and doctrines. He further argues that
it now plays a malign ideological role, for it has come to evoke a
socially-constructed body of ideas whose illusory unity is deployed
to suggest that redistributive policies are neither feasible nor
desirable and to deny that there are institutional alternatives to
the market.
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