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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly - The Modern Religion of Conscience (Paperback)
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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly - The Modern Religion of Conscience (Paperback)
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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly presents a genealogy and critique
of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology,
particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. It
shows why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy
compromised the ideal of self-legislated freedom. David 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 cliche that the
luminaries of modern philosophy simply replaced God with the self,
David Pacini 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 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 given that any
other world is inconceivable, the conscientious individual can
never know whether its world is just or merely the expression of
self-interest. Paradoxically, Pacini argues, the most formidable
proponents of the modern religion of conscience share with their
critics a common problem: the self-legislating self has become both
indispensable and impossible within much of modern philosophy and
theology. 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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