What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions

by John M Rist and John M. Rist

In this book, John M. Rist offers an account of the concept of 'person' as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a post-Christian culture. He begins by identifying the 'mainline tradition' about persons as it evolved from the time of Plato to the High Middle Ages, then turns to successive attacks on it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then proceeds to the 'five ways' in which the tradition was savaged or distorted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108478077
• ISBN13: 9781108478076
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"