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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... analysis of modernity's sense of its own absoluteness , divorced from an archaic " enchanted " world . He proposes in its place a more fruitful model that integrates historical analysis and theoretical speculation . Contesting the views ...
... analysis of modernity's sense of its own absoluteness , divorced from an archaic " enchanted " world . He proposes in its place a more fruitful model that integrates historical analysis and theoretical speculation . Contesting the views ...
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... analyses of the relationship between subjectivity and modernity accept the Cartesian model of self - consciousness as the dominant one even where they argue against it , the modern subject is in fact positioned within a field of ...
... analyses of the relationship between subjectivity and modernity accept the Cartesian model of self - consciousness as the dominant one even where they argue against it , the modern subject is in fact positioned within a field of ...
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... analysis assumes that the conflicts within society must always be between different social groups , however , the contradictions I see within modernity are lodged within the divided subject , who may act in different functional roles ...
... analysis assumes that the conflicts within society must always be between different social groups , however , the contradictions I see within modernity are lodged within the divided subject , who may act in different functional roles ...
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Anthony J. Cascardi. of particular roles with the universal good . In Hegel's analysis of traditional society , any given role as performed by an individual invariably comes into conflict with other equally sanctioned roles . This leads ...
Anthony J. Cascardi. of particular roles with the universal good . In Hegel's analysis of traditional society , any given role as performed by an individual invariably comes into conflict with other equally sanctioned roles . This leads ...
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... analysis of rationalization may in this respect provide a more useful guide , even though it is sometimes easy to forget that Weberian social theory is itself a symptom of some of the historical problems it is attempting to address ...
... analysis of rationalization may in this respect provide a more useful guide , even though it is sometimes easy to forget that Weberian social theory is itself a symptom of some of the historical problems it is attempting to address ...
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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