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: 978-3-11-067173-5
- EAN: 9783110671735
- Produktnummer: 34789097
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 213 S.
- Originaltitel: Tilo Schabert, Das Gesicht der Moderne. Zur Irregularität eines Zeitalters, Freiburg-München, 2018. Deutsch
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'294 KB
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Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, Germany.
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