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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity (Paperback)
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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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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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