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