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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... attempt to understand it simply in terms of a contrast with the Ancient or medieval worlds . This is because what is at stake in the emergence of the subject is the activity of " world- picturing " itself , a form of representation that ...
... attempt to understand it simply in terms of a contrast with the Ancient or medieval worlds . This is because what is at stake in the emergence of the subject is the activity of " world- picturing " itself , a form of representation that ...
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... attempts to account for the conditions of modernity history and theory remain sharply divided realms : as Hegel's ... attempt to understand the culture of modernity as a " detotalized " whole thus may not be resolved but may be made ...
... attempts to account for the conditions of modernity history and theory remain sharply divided realms : as Hegel's ... attempt to understand the culture of modernity as a " detotalized " whole thus may not be resolved but may be made ...
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... attempts to bind the principle of the good to any pre - existent or naturally occurring features of the world . In the most rigorous sense , " representation " is a form of world - construction that is dependent on the belief that there ...
... attempts to bind the principle of the good to any pre - existent or naturally occurring features of the world . In the most rigorous sense , " representation " is a form of world - construction that is dependent on the belief that there ...
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... attempt to project possible transformations beyond the bounds of reason in the form of what Lyotard calls a " postmodern sublime . " They take what little post - metaphysical comforts they may need from the claim that the culture of ...
... attempt to project possible transformations beyond the bounds of reason in the form of what Lyotard calls a " postmodern sublime . " They take what little post - metaphysical comforts they may need from the claim that the culture of ...
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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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