Modernity And Its Discontents: Making And Unmaking The Bourgeois From Machiavelli To Bellow
Yale University Press
ISBN13:
9780300240238
$70.10
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project's most powerful defenders and critics--from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin--this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.
- | Author: Steven B. Smith
- | Publisher: Yale University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 416 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0300240236
- | ISBN-13: 9780300240238
- Author:
- Steven B. Smith
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 07, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 416 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0300240236
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300240238