I. PROPER PRIDE.- 1. Why pride? Theses.- 2.The meaning of the term pride.- 3. Pride and metaphysics.- 4. Augustine on due pride.- 5. Kierkegaard on due pride.- II. HISTORY AND ITS CHALLENGES.- 6. The Renaissance interest in doing things for their own sake.- 7. Intrinsic goals.- 8. Passion and professionalism.- 9. The bourgeois revolution and bourgeois authenticity.- 10. Rousseau’s authenticity.- 11. Marx, Weber, and mere subjectivity.- 12. Heidegger’s authenticity.- 13. Authenticity in contemporary discussion.- 14. Authenticity in China.- 15. Rethinking secularization, liberalism, and religion.- III. MORALITY AND THE SELF.- 16. What are morality and moral theory?.- 17. Shame and pride.- 18. Korsgaard and self-constituters vs. self-discoverers.- 19. Kant, free will and the self.- 20. Inheritance pride, authenticity, and morality.- IV. PROSPECTS OF PROPER PRIDE.- 21. Technology and society.- 22. Problems of the economy.- 23. Basic income.- 24. The shrinking of the nation states.- 25. Data processing and liberty.- 26. Data processing in novels.- 27. Competitors in metaphysics.- 28. Kitsch, tragedy, and power.- 29. Prospects, bleak and less bleak.- Instead of a conclusion.- Select Bibliography.- Index.
