Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Smith, Steven B.

ISBN 10: 0300198396 / ISBN 13: 9780300198393

Editore: Yale University Press, 2016

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• Titolo: Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
• Editore: Yale University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300198396
• ISBN 13: 9780300198393
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Steven B. Smith is Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University.