Facets of Modernity (eBook)

Reflections on Fractured Subjectivity

Dmitri Nikulin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
294 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78661-506-0 (ISBN)

Infos

What does it mean to be human in modernity? This book examines being human, in its theoretical, practical, and productive aspects, not in abstraction from historical, social, and political settings, but rather as set in concrete historical and material circumstances. Through the analysis and close reading of a number of texts of the modern thinkers, which include those of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kracauer, Heidegger, Benjamin, Hans Jonas and Agnes Heller, it demonstrates that the complexity and variety of the human experience is grounded in the modern subjectivity, which establishes itself as universal, rational, autonomous, and necessary. Such a subjectivity is characterised as self-legislating or establishing the universal moral law and is further defined by historicity, or the interpretation of its actions as conditioned by the previous and current social and political circumstances. The book then shows that the multiple facets of modernity make the experience of being human fascinating, complicated and ultimately unique.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Comedy • Dialogue • dostoevsky • ethics • Philosophy of History • philosophy of science • Political Philosophy • Russian Literature • Social Philosophy • Subjectivity • Walter Benjamin
• ISBN-10: 1-78661-506-1 / 1786615061
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78661-506-0 / 9781786615060