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Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow /
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...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One Introduction
- Modernity in Question
- Part Two Modernity
- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self
- The Exemplary Life of René Descartes
- Was Hobbes a Christian?
- What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza?
- Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment
- Kant's Liberal Internationalism
- Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World,"
- Part Three Our Discontents
- Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater
- Tocqueville's America
- Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois
- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt
- The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
- Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life
- The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard
- Mr. Sammler's Redemption
- Part Four Conclusion
- Modernity and Its Doubles.