0 the idea that freedom of thought and action for each person is the most important quality of a society, rather than shared effort and responsibility
1 the quality of being different or original
2 the idea that each person should think and act independently rather than depending on others:
3 the principle that the single person is more important than the group and that people should work and own things for their own advantage:
Their world-view was typically bourgeois, embracing struggle, competition, individualism and the elitism of merit.
The reproach against the individualism of art is so pathetically wretched simply because it overlooks the social nature of this individualism.
The character impersonation of bourgeois theatre expresses a social and political ideology based on individualism.
In the 1980s, they proudly flaunted their individualism, outside social norms.
Therefore, the regression coefficients for economic individualism and equal opportunity opposition should be positive.
Moreover, these aspects of modernity were inextricably intertwined with the growth of self-interest, individualism, and ambition.
However, in a developed world culturally moulded by individualism, the myth that we can know ourselves through examining ourselves continues to hold sway.
In practice, the framework of liberal equality, however, does not adapt well to encompass individualism.
