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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