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The Figure of Modernity - On the Irregularity of an Epoch (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,318
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The Figure of Modernity - On the Irregularity of an Epoch (Hardcover): Tilo Schabert

The Figure of Modernity - On the Irregularity of an Epoch (Hardcover)

Tilo Schabert; Preface by James Greenaway; Translated by Javier Ibanez-Noe

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Two words describe a "modern" world: limits and limitless. Traditionally, humans recognized limits of their power. Modernity meant a break. Its protagonists aspired to bring worlds of their imagination into reality. They taught a new anthropology. Humans could ascend to a God-like status. Schabert analyzes the history of the project and its result: a civilization in a perennial crisis. Symptoms of the crisis have been exposed, today mostly in ecological terms. Schabert takes his material from many fields: philosophy, cosmology, natural sciences, literature, social studies, economics, architecture, and political thought. While modernity is endlessly disrupted, a world beyond modernity can be traced, especially in the modern theory of constitutional government. Constitutional governments are formed by limitations within a civilization that is meant to have no limits. What appears to be paradoxical has its own logic, as Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Montesquieu, John Adams, the Federalist Papers, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and Woodrow Wilson have shown. Schabert carefully explicates their constitutional thought. It realized the limits through which modernity holds a promise.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: September 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Tilo Schabert
Preface by: James Greenaway
Translators: Javier Ibanez-Noe
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-067170-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 3-11-067170-0
Barcode: 9783110671704

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