Baum finds in Ulysses echoes of Lord Byron's flawed heroes, who similarly display conflicting emotions, self-critical introspection, and a rejection of social responsibility.
Postmodern values involved "a new set of beliefs about nature, science, holistic medicine, rejection of authority, individual responsibility and consumerism" [ 9].
That may be a recipe for higher profits, but such a full-blown rejection of government's regulatory responsibility would make life for Americans far more difficult and dangerous.
What is unique and deeply disturbing about its position is its rejection of the Senate's responsibility to engage in deliberation, to give fair consideration to nominees and to attempt some accommodation as has occurred in the past.
These include capitalism's subordination of human welfare to the pursuit of profits; its transformation of greed from Christianity's Third Mortal Sin to the preeminent capitalist virtue (based on a selective reading of Adam Smith); and its rejection of the biblically-mandated responsibility to "love your neighbor as yourself," i.e., to care for society's poor and vulnerable.
Holism, rejection of authority and individual responsibility scores were significantly associated with self-management use.
His study also found that, contrary to popular beliefs, today's young people aren't necessarily closer to Labour ideologically: "What we saw was a greater emphasis on individual responsibility and a rejection of the idea that big institutional response is necessarily the best thing," he explained.
Killing the Leveson report by a drawn-out process would be an equal, if not greater, abdication of responsibility as an unreasonable rejection of its key recommendations.
That group was founded in rejection to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which included absolving Jews of responsibility for the crucifixion.
Npower denies responsibility for the rejection of your mortgage application – which was to take out a buy-to-let loan in place of your residential mortgage.
