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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... principle closed to the possibility of revision from within , met a series of destabilizing conditions , the underlying groundwork of authority and the fabric of social relations came to be challenged in fundamental ways . As a result ...
... principle closed to the possibility of revision from within , met a series of destabilizing conditions , the underlying groundwork of authority and the fabric of social relations came to be challenged in fundamental ways . As a result ...
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... principle of the good to any pre - existent or naturally occurring features of the world . In the most rigorous ... principles of subjectivity are aligned in a variety of ways to the values of individual freedom and autonomy ; the ...
... principle of the good to any pre - existent or naturally occurring features of the world . In the most rigorous ... principles of subjectivity are aligned in a variety of ways to the values of individual freedom and autonomy ; the ...
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... principle unattractive . But both of these alternatives will remain at best abstract possibilities unless we recognize the historically embedded nature of the problems that the subject faces . Max Weber's analysis of rationalization may ...
... principle unattractive . But both of these alternatives will remain at best abstract possibilities unless we recognize the historically embedded nature of the problems that the subject faces . Max Weber's analysis of rationalization may ...
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... principle of exposition , reference to " the subject " as a disembodied substance or to " modernity " as an autonomous order of concepts must remain procedures of restricted scope . The disadvantage of understanding modernity strictly ...
... principle of exposition , reference to " the subject " as a disembodied substance or to " modernity " as an autonomous order of concepts must remain procedures of restricted scope . The disadvantage of understanding modernity strictly ...
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... 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 when we look at the seventeenth . To ...
... 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 when we look at the seventeenth . To ...
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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