Modernity and Its Discontents

Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Steven B. Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2016
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-19839-3 (ISBN)

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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 byproducts.

Steven B. Smith is Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-300-19839-6 / 0300198396
ISBN-13	978-0-300-19839-3 / 9780300198393
Zustand	Neuware