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ISBN 10: 0300198393
ISBN 13: 9780300198393
Author: Steven Smith
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.
Modernity and Its Discontents 1st Table of contents:
Part One Introduction
1 Modernity in Question
Part Two Modernity
2 Machiavelli’s Mandragola and the Protean Self
3 The Exemplary Life of René Descartes
4 Was Hobbes a Christian?
5 What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza?
6 Benjamin Franklin’s American Enlightenment
7 Kant’s Liberal Internationalism
8 Hegel and the “Bourgeois-Christian World,”
Part Three Our Discontents
9 Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d’Alembert on the Theater
10 Tocqueville’s America
11 Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois
12 The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt
13 The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
14 Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life
15 The Political Teaching of Lampedusa’s The Leopard
16 Mr. Sammler’s Redemption
Part Four Conclusion
17 Modernity and Its Doubles
Notes
Index
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