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1 online resource (417 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part One Introduction -- Modernity in Question -- Part Two Modernity -- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self -- The Exemplary Life of René 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," -- Part Three 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 -- Part Four Conclusion -- Modernity and Its Doubles. |
| Summary |
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.--OverDrive. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780300220988 (electronic book) |
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0300220987 (electronic book) |
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9780300198393 |
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