Modernity's pretenses : making reality fit reason from Candide to the gulag /

Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Racevskis, Karlis
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Collection:SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Sujets:
Rationalism.
Reason > History.
Postmodernism.
Rationalisme.
Raison > Histoire.
Postmodernisme.
rationalism (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Rationalism.
Reason.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Voltaire and the Limits of Reason 19
  • 2. The Postmodern Outlook for Hermeneutics 33
  • 3. Michele Le Doeuff's Philosophy of Disinvolvement 51
  • 4. The Dialectic of Reason 65
  • 5. Foucault's Critique of the Enlightenment 77
  • 6. Reason in the Age of Atrocity 89
  • 7. Ethnic Identity in a Post-Stalinist Age 111.

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