Modernity and its discontents
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.
כותר |
Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow / Steven B. Smith. |
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מוציא לאור |
New Haven : Yale University Press |
שנה |
2016 |
הערות |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-383) and index. |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Introduction. Modernity in Question -- Modernity. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self The exemplary Life of Rene Descartes Was Hobbes a Christian? What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza? Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment Kant's Liberal Internationalism Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World" -- Our Discontents. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater Tocqueville's America Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard Mr. Sammler's Redemption -- Conclusion. Modernity and Its Doubles. |
היקף החומר |
xiv, 402 p. 25 cm. |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010721130305171 |
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