Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300220988
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/09/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Steven B. Smith
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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