In The Politics of Individualism, she makes a distinction between " existential individualism " and " instrumental individualism " and examines how these forms are utilized in liberalism ( particularly liberal feminism ) and anarchism.

* Individualism, a focus on the individual as opposed to society

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that stresses " the moral worth of the individual ".

* Individualism, a philosophy stressing the worth of individual selves

In 1834 he published an essay entitled " Individualism and Socialism " which, despite its message of scepticism towards both tendencies, introduced the term socialism in French political discourse.

* Beck, Ulrich & Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth ( 2002 ) Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences.

He wrote the books Pleidooi voor het individualisme ( A Plea for Individualism ) and De derde feministische golf ( The Third Feminist Wave ), much of it focusing on Islamic feminism and its impact in Europe.

In his important essay The Soul of Man under Socialism from 1891 Wilde defended socialism as the way to guarantee individualism and so he saw that " With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.

" Individualism is thus also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors as so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.

Individualism, sometimes closely associated with certain variants of anarchism or liberalism, typically takes it for granted that individuals know best and that public authority or society has no right to interfere in the person's decision-making process, unless a very compelling need to do so arises ( and maybe not even in those circumstances ).

" Individualism, however, is viewed negatively, for it is equated with selfishness, the opposite of the empathy that is so highly valued.

Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies ( a term the UK has used in the post-World War II period ) to collectivist.

* Weaver, Richard M. " Two Types of American Individualism ," Modern Age 1963 7 ( 2 ): 119-134 ; compares Randolph with Henry David Thoreau online edition

" Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism ; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

The anarchist Oscar Wilde said that " For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

" When she embraced " anarchism without adjectives ", de Cleyre reasoned that: " Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism ; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

Individualism allows for others ' interest and well-being to be disregarded or not, as long as what is chosen is efficacious in satisfying the self-interest of the agent.

Individualism allows for others ' interest and well-being to be disregarded or not, as long as what is chosen is efficacious in satisfying the self-interest of the agent.

However, Wilde advocated non-capitalist individualism: " of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under conditions of private property is not always, or even as a rule, of a fine or wonderful type " a critique which is " quite true.

Individualism is shrinking while the prospect of a “ global village ” is becoming more and more apparent.

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is ... With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism.

Reggaeton – whose lyrics emphasize Sensuality, Individualism and sex, in graphic and sexually explicit terms – stands in sharp contrast to the tradition of Cuban underground rap, the content of which is more often characterized by social commentary on inequality and injustice.

Brown is best known for her germinal text The Politics of Individualism ( 1993 ) and for her article Does Work Really Work ?.

In both The Politics of Individualism and Does Work Really Work ?, Brown's conception of libertarian socialism is that all social bonds should be developed by individuals who have an equal amount of bargaining power, because, in Brown's view, an accumulation of monetary wealth leads to the centralization of economic and political power in the hands of a small elite, reducing the bargaining power — and thus the liberty — of the other individuals in society.

Individualism, to Emerson, is crucial to intellectual and historical achievements.

The personnel list for The Individualism of Gil Evans

Edwin G. Conklin's Critique of Eugenics and Support for American Individualism

* 1994 – George Kateb for The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic

* A Plea for Individualism

At about the same time, C. B. Macpherson argued in his Political Theory of Possessive Individualism that Hobbes and Locke stood together in laying the groundwork for proto-capitalism.

They include The Evidence of the Senses, which argues for a unique form of direct realism about perception ; Unrugged Individualism, which explores benevolence as a virtue ; A Life of One's Own, a moral critique of the welfare state ; and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand, focusing on the schisms within the Objectivist movement.

* " Individualism versus Communitarianism: A Consensual Compromise ," written for a symposium at the World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August, 1998, and to published in the proceedings.

* Machan, Tibor, Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being, 1998, Routledge.

* Norton, David, Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism, 1976, Princeton University Press.

* Individualism and Economic Order, 1948.

Individualism and economic order.

* Burge, Tyler ( 1979 ) " Individualism and the Mental ", in French, Uehling, and Wettstein ( eds.

( 1991 ) Toward a Genealogy of Individualism.

( 1996 ) Myths of Modern Individualism.

* " American Individualism and Emerson, Its Champion.

Individualism and Communism go hand in hand.

In the field of ethics, Kelley has argued in works such as Unrugged Individualism ( 1996 ) and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand ( 2000 ) that Objectivists should pay more attention to the virtue of benevolence and place less emphasis on issues of moral sanction.

* Bowman, Durrell S. " Let Them All Make Their Own Music: Individualism, Rush and the Progressive / Hard Rock Alloy ," in Progressive Rock Reconsidered, Kevin Holm-Hudson ( ed ), Routledge, 2002.

"' Open Secrets ': Individualism and Middle-Class Identity in the songs of Rush ," Popular Music and Society Volume 31 No. 3, July 2008, pp. 313 – 328.

" Methodological Individualism and Social Knowledge ", American Economic Review, 84 ( 2 ), pp. 1-9

Art Nouveau, an Art of Transition: From Individualism to Mass Society.

* Hayek, F. A ( 1948 ) Individualism and Economic order