Modernity's Wager

Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

von

Seligman, Adam B.

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

190 Seiten

Englisch

Princeton University Presserschienen am03.08.2003

Evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics.mehr

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KlappentextEvaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-11636-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2003

Erscheinungsdatum03.08.2003

Seiten190 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 10 mm

Gewicht298 g

Artikel-Nr.13745727

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowlegments ix Introduction 3 Chapter One: The Self in the Social Sciences 15 Chapter Two: Authority and the Self 34 Chapter Three: Heteronomy and Responsibility 60 Chapter Four: The Self Internalized 87 Chapter Five: Tolerance and Tradition 124 Notes 143 Bibliography 159 Index 173mehr