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"[Smith is] superb at bringing abstract ideas to life. . . . Smith's heart is with an urbane liberal like [Isaiah] Berlin, for whom . . . 'modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.'"-James Miller, New York Times Book Review "Steven B. Smith's timely and thoughtful new book offers an insightful and impressively wide-ranging discussion of modernity and its internal tensions. It will be widely read and discussed for years to come."-Charles L. Griswold, Bowne Professor of Philosophy, Boston University "Steven B. Smith's powerfully lucid intellectual history of modernity offers a new take on the dialogue between ancients and moderns, showing how a diverse group of modern philosophers and writers became more aware of their own ideas and identity by engaging with perennial issues. As an account of who we in the West have become, Modernity and its Discontents should inform discussions of what we might mean by progress in the future."-Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University "Whether you are a lover of modernity or a pre-modern or post-modern critic, this is a book that will engage, enlighten, and provoke you. The chapters are free-standing essays, but they add up to an important argument-and they are at the same time intellectual fun, of a very high order."-Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ "This is the history of ideas as it should be done-which is to say, a rich and probing and significant book. Steven B. Smith has fully mastered the modern intellectual tradition, and he has a gift for clarity that does not come at the expense of complexity. He refreshes many valuable things. It must be a joy to be his student."-Leon Wieseltier
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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.
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- VerlagYale University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2018
- ISBN 10 0300240236
- ISBN 13 9780300240238
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten418
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