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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... interpreting of an historical age ? Does every period of history have its world picture , and indeed in such a way as ... interpretation of the category of subjectivity as central to the understanding of what Heidegger calls the " world ...
... interpreting of an historical age ? Does every period of history have its world picture , and indeed in such a way as ... interpretation of the category of subjectivity as central to the understanding of what Heidegger calls the " world ...
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... interpreting the problem of modernity as strictly a problem for philosophy if we keep in mind the fact that the modern subject is defined by its insertion into a series of separate value - spheres , each one of which tends to exclude or ...
... interpreting the problem of modernity as strictly a problem for philosophy if we keep in mind the fact that the modern subject is defined by its insertion into a series of separate value - spheres , each one of which tends to exclude or ...
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... interpreted increasingly in terms of procedural justice and formal rationality . As we shall see in connection with our discussion of Weber in chapter 1 below , this yields a rigid separation of substance and form , and constitutes one ...
... interpreted increasingly in terms of procedural justice and formal rationality . As we shall see in connection with our discussion of Weber in chapter 1 below , this yields a rigid separation of substance and form , and constitutes one ...
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... interpreted in accordance with the principles of clear speech . In addition , Habermas's analysis of the modern age begins with the eighteenth century and largely ignores the problems of social and historical change that come to light ...
... interpreted in accordance with the principles of clear speech . In addition , Habermas's analysis of the modern age begins with the eighteenth century and largely ignores the problems of social and historical change that come to light ...
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... interpretation of the modern age . Thus my concluding chapter offers a re - interpretation of Kant's conception of aesthetic judgment in an attempt to draw out 13 See , for example , Altieri's Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American ...
... interpretation of the modern age . Thus my concluding chapter offers a re - interpretation of Kant's conception of aesthetic judgment in an attempt to draw out 13 See , for example , Altieri's Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American ...
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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