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The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch/ Tilo Schabert.

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dc.contributor.author Schabert Tilo
dc.contributor.author Greenaway James.
dc.contributor.author Ibáñez-Noé Javier.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-26T21:46:42Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-26T21:46:42Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.citation Schabert и др. The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch - 1 online resource (XXXII, 181 p.) - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/2628727.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn 9783110671735
dc.identifier.isbn 3110671735
dc.identifier.isbn 9783110671872
dc.identifier.isbn 3110671875
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/179088
dc.description In English.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
dc.description.abstract Two words describe a "modern" world: limits and limitless. Traditionally, humans recognized limits of their power. Modernity meant a break. Its protagonists aspired to bring worlds of their imagination into reality. They taught a new anthropology. Humans could ascend to a God-like status. Schabert analyzes the history of the project and its result: a civilization in a perennial crisis. Symptoms of the crisis have been exposed, today mostly in ecological terms. Schabert takes his material from many fields: philosophy, cosmology, natural sciences, literature, social studies, economics, architecture, and political thought. While modernity is endlessly disrupted, a world beyond modernity can be traced, especially in the modern theory of constitutional government. Constitutional governments are formed by limitations within a civilization that is meant to have no limits. What appears to be paradoxical has its own logic, as Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Montesquieu, John Adams, the Federalist Papers, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and Woodrow Wilson have shown. Schabert carefully explicates their constitutional thought. It realized the limits through which modernity holds a promise.
dc.description.tableofcontents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prolegomenon -- Chapter 1. The Floundering God -- Chapter 2. What is Modernity? -- Chapter 3. Discourse On Method -- Chapter 4. The Heritage of the Renaissance: Cosmos and Nature -- Chapter 5. The Heritage of the Renaissance: On the Misery and Dignity of the Human Being -- Chapter 6. The Mastery Over Nature -- Chapter 7. The Crisis of Modernity I -- Chapter 8. The Crisis of Modernity II -- Chapter 9. Gestalt in Modernity: The Constitutional Regime -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject.other Kosmologie.
dc.subject.other Moderne.
dc.subject.other Modernity.
dc.subject.other Verfassungsstaat.
dc.subject.other constitutional government.
dc.subject.other cosmology.
dc.subject.other ecology.
dc.subject.other human civilization.
dc.subject.other Ökologie.
dc.subject.other PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
dc.subject.other Civilization, Modern.
dc.subject.other Electronic books.
dc.title The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch/ Tilo Schabert.
dc.type Book
dc.description.pages 1 online resource (XXXII, 181 p.)
dc.collection Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id EN05CEBSCO05C356030


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