The Subject of ModernityCambridge University Press, 19 mrt 1992 - 316 pagina's The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and critic Anthony J. Cascardi. Offering an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject or self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth, he carries his argument across the fields of epistemology, literature, political science, religion and psychology. The modern subject proves to be positioned within conflicting discourses, in a culture characterised by its 'detotalised totality'. Max Weber's concept of 'world disenchantment' enables Cascardi to make a searching critique of modernity's sense of its absoluteness, divorced from an archaic, 'enchanted' world. He advocates in its place a more fruitful relationship between historical analysis and theoretical speculation, offering constructive new alternatives to current orthodoxy regarding subjectivity and modernity. |
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... abstract and potentially empty underlying ground ( whose political analogue may be located in the organization of the modern bureaucratic State ) , set in a world that has become increasingly disenchanted or " rationalized ...
... abstract and potentially empty underlying ground ( whose political analogue may be located in the organization of the modern bureaucratic State ) , set in a world that has become increasingly disenchanted or " rationalized ...
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... abstract possibilities unless we recognize the historically embedded nature of the problems that the subject faces . Max Weber's analysis of rationalization may in this respect provide a more useful guide , even though it is sometimes ...
... abstract possibilities unless we recognize the historically embedded nature of the problems that the subject faces . Max Weber's analysis of rationalization may in this respect provide a more useful guide , even though it is sometimes ...
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... abstract order of concepts or to establish the validity of a series of autonomous historical " facts " but to comprehend the way in which the subject is positioned between these two orders . Although Weber's social theory is ...
... abstract order of concepts or to establish the validity of a series of autonomous historical " facts " but to comprehend the way in which the subject is positioned between these two orders . Although Weber's social theory is ...
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... abstract . For the reasons I have suggested above , a critique of modernity cannot be undertaken exclusively through a critique of reason . And yet it would be wrong to forget that the process of rationalization is centrally bound up ...
... abstract . For the reasons I have suggested above , a critique of modernity cannot be undertaken exclusively through a critique of reason . And yet it would be wrong to forget that the process of rationalization is centrally bound up ...
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Inhoudsopgave
The disenchantment of the world | 16 |
Modes of rationalization | 41 |
Selfhood and subjectivity | 56 |
The theory of the novel and the autonomy of art | 72 |
Epic and novel | 94 |
The autonomy of art | 103 |
Secularization and modernization | 125 |
norms and ideals | 140 |
The subject and the State | 179 |
Reorientation in ethics | 202 |
Legitimation and representation | 221 |
Subjective desire | 228 |
Subjective desire and social change | 240 |
recognition and transformation | 259 |
Possibilities of postmodernism | 275 |
Aesthetic liberalism | 296 |
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