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In Hegel's thought we can find the beginnings of the distinctly "modern" self -- a self emphasizing the unique personality and the idea of individual freedom -- in particular the freedom to express and actualize the unique individual will. In the Phenomenology of Mind Hegel developed his logic of individual growth to increasing levels of self-awareness. While the ultimate goal in his philosophy was to link the individual with a collective community of like spirits, his self begins that search toward self-actualization through an individual subjective encounter with the material world. [..] (--Neala Schleuning)

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Book Review
The Politics of Individualism:
Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism
by L. Susan Brown

Reviewed by:
Neala Schleuning