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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity

Af: David Ohana Engelsk Paperback

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity

Af: David Ohana Engelsk Paperback
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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the one that they found, and to liberate themselves from their immemorial chains. This passion created the political ideologies of the nineteenth century and made its imprint on the totalitarian regimes that arose in their wake in the twentieth.



Underlying the Promethean passion there was modernity—humankind''s project of self-creation—and enlightenment, the existence of a constant tension between the actual and the desirable, between reality and the ideal. Beneath the weariness, the exhaustion and the skepticism of post-modernist criticism is a refusal to take Promethean horizons into account. This book attests the importance of reason, which remains a powerful critical weapon of humankind against the idols that have come out of modernity: totalitarianism, fundamentalism, the golem of technology, genetic engineering and a boundless will to power. Without it, the new Prometheus is liable to return the fire to the gods.

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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the one that they found, and to liberate themselves from their immemorial chains. This passion created the political ideologies of the nineteenth century and made its imprint on the totalitarian regimes that arose in their wake in the twentieth.



Underlying the Promethean passion there was modernity—humankind''s project of self-creation—and enlightenment, the existence of a constant tension between the actual and the desirable, between reality and the ideal. Beneath the weariness, the exhaustion and the skepticism of post-modernist criticism is a refusal to take Promethean horizons into account. This book attests the importance of reason, which remains a powerful critical weapon of humankind against the idols that have come out of modernity: totalitarianism, fundamentalism, the golem of technology, genetic engineering and a boundless will to power. Without it, the new Prometheus is liable to return the fire to the gods.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 246
ISBN-13: 9781032093321
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1032093323
Kategori: Moderne filosofi: efter 1800
Udg. Dato: 30 jun 2021
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 30 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): David Ohana
Forfatter(e) David Ohana

Kategori Moderne filosofi: efter 1800

ISBN-13 9781032093321

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 246

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 30 jun 2021

Oplagsdato 30 jun 2021

Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd