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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... society and with the forms of substantive rationality and charismatic authority discussed at length by Max Weber ; similarly , the principles of subjective selfhood dominant in modernity might initially be understood in contrast with ...
... society and with the forms of substantive rationality and charismatic authority discussed at length by Max Weber ; similarly , the principles of subjective selfhood dominant in modernity might initially be understood in contrast with ...
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... societies , relatively secure in their conception of the good and in principle closed to the possibility of revision ... society - that there is an essential , internal order of things - it remains difficult for the subject to accept its ...
... societies , relatively secure in their conception of the good and in principle closed to the possibility of revision ... society - that there is an essential , internal order of things - it remains difficult for the subject to accept its ...
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... society were given , predetermined , and so were a man's place in the society and the privileges and duties that followed from his status . " ? It is thus possible to see that the " totality " of heroic society is an ideological effect ...
... society were given , predetermined , and so were a man's place in the society and the privileges and duties that followed from his status . " ? It is thus possible to see that the " totality " of heroic society is an ideological effect ...
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... society will in fact have more power than others , and yet no group seems entitled to dominate the rest . Whereas Unger's analysis assumes that the conflicts within society must always be between different social groups , however , the ...
... society will in fact have more power than others , and yet no group seems entitled to dominate the rest . Whereas Unger's analysis assumes that the conflicts within society must always be between different social groups , however , the ...
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... society , any given role as performed by an individual invariably comes into conflict with other equally sanctioned roles . This leads people to separate the particularity of their roles from the wholeness of the social universe , and ...
... society , any given role as performed by an individual invariably comes into conflict with other equally sanctioned roles . This leads people to separate the particularity of their roles from the wholeness of the social universe , and ...
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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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