Moderately Modern - Rilegato

Brague, Rémi

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1587315181 ISBN 13: 9781587315183

Casa editrice: St Augustine Pr Inc, 2019

Riassunto

Moderately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity’s ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort zone. Implicit in this claim, of course, is a slew of topics, claims, and an argument. What is modernity? What’s lacking in it? Where should its adherents look outside and beyond it? What would they find? And what would a conjunction of a chastened modernity and a newly respected outside look like? It would be difficult to find someone more equipped to raise and pursue these questions than Rémi Brague.
     Le règne de l’homme: l’echec du projet modern (The kingdom of man: the failure of the modern project) already laid out his basic views: modernity is the project of radical anthropocentrism, of man construed as the sovereign of the world and of his very humanity. If the traditional order of the West located man within a wider scheme of God/world/man, with the former two providing models of excellence for the latter, then modern thought reverses the order, expelling God and the divine from public centrality and, by means of technological science, aiming to make man, in Descartes’ famous phrase, “master and possessor of Nature”. The Legitimacy of the Human picks up the theme and surveys the results. Birth dearths, looming ecological disasters, and the threat of destruction on enormous scales testify to something having gone terribly awry. Its concluding chapters advise a reconsideration of the rejected premodern option: the biblical God and his providential care.
     Moderately Modern brings all of the foregoing together, mixing cultural critique with cultural restoration.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: St Augustine Pr Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1587315181
• ISBN 13: 9781587315183
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 255
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile