TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kira Kogan
PY  - 2013
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783656476030
TI  - The Self-Made Man: Myth and Reality of an American Phenomenon
DO  - 10.3239/9783656476030
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/231210
N2  - In the first part of this essay I will contemplate the historical development of the concept of American individualism through the centuries, which created a contextual background for the establishment of a self-made man idea in the minds of Americans. In addition there will be given the biographical examples of self-made men that became a pattern for all the successors in American history. Furthermore I would like to make an overview of the various aspects of self-made man philosophy, which includes the discussion of its positive and negative sides and its influences on personality and society in general. Finally I will debate the ways of realisation of the self-made man idea nowadays and weigh the existing perspectives in the individualistic and contradictory world of now.
KW  - self-, made, myth, reality, american, phenomenon
LA  - English
ER  -