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Modernity and Its Discontents

Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

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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.

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Modernity and Its Discontents, Steven B. Smith

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2016
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Titolo
Modernity and Its Discontents
Sottotitolo
Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2016
Formato
Copertina rigida
Pagine
402
ISBN10
0300198396
ISBN13
9780300198393
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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.