The Figure of Modernity
On the Irregularity of an Epoch
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 endle…
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Weitere Autoren: Ibáñez-Noé, Javier (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-067170-4
- EAN: 9783110671704
- Produktnummer: 34621746
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 181 S.
- Originaltitel: Tilo Schabert, Das Gesicht der Moderne. Zur Irregularität eines Zeitalters, Freiburg-München, 2018. Deutsch
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.3 cm 434 g
- Abbildungen: 4 b/w ld
- Gewicht: 434
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Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, Germany.
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