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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly - The Modern Religion of Conscience (Hardcover)
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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly - The Modern Religion of Conscience (Hardcover)
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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly: The Rise and Fall of the Modern
Religion of Conscience presents a genealogy and critique of the
ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly
in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant; and it answers the
question of why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy
compromised the ideal of self-legislated freedom. Pacini argues
that despite its advocacy of the popular political value of common
understanding, the modern religion of conscience has become the
Achilles' heel of both Kantian and Freudian thought: it is doomed
to succumb to its own fundamentally narcissistic-or
self-relating-orientation. Avoiding the tenacious clichA(c) that
the luminaries of modern philosophy simply replaced God with the
self and then supplied reasonable constraints for the resulting
apotheosis, Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly argues that the modern
religion of conscience emerges out of a far more radical kind of
disenchantment, one in which both God and self are de-divinized.
Bereft of its divinity, the God of modernity becomes empty; the
self of modernity, in its autonomy, becomes hopelessly tied to
dissociation from origins and to loss of a world. Left only to
itself, the conscientious individual has only the world it
legitimates through self-relating. But as any other world is
inconceivable, the conscientious individual can never know whether
its world is just or merely the expression of self-interest.
Paradoxically, the author argues, the most formidable proponents of
the modern religion of conscience would come to share with their
critics (including Wittgenstein, Freud, and Barth) a common
problem: the self-legislating self has become bothindispensable and
impossible within much of modern philosophy and theology, and
requires a distorted perspective in order to veil its incoherence.
This unique and interdisciplinary interpretation of conscience
makes an important contribution for scholars and students of modern
philosophy, Christian theology, psychoanalytic theory and literary
criticism.
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