Concept information
Preferred term
individualism
Definition(s)
- Individualism is largely understood today as a normative doctrine holding the autonomy of individuals to be the final object of moral and political life. The term was originally descriptive, however, invented in the early nineteenth century to describe the atomization of European society that attended democracy's emergence after the collapse of the ancien régime. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Individualism]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HVJQ4559-0
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