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Facets of Modernity
Reflections on Fractured Subjectivity|
44,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 11.05.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781786615060 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 294 |
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Beschreibungen
<span><span>What does it mean to be human in modernity? This book examines being human, in its theoretical, practical, and productive aspects, not in abstraction from historical, social, and political settings, but rather as set in concrete historical and material circumstances. Through the analysis and close reading of a number of texts of the modern thinkers, which include those of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kracauer, Heidegger, Benjamin, Hans Jonas and Agnes Heller, it demonstrates that the complexity and variety of the human experience is grounded in the modern subjectivity, which </span><span>establishes itself as universal, rational, autonomous, and necessary. Such a subjectivity is characterised as </span><span>self-legislating or establishing the universal moral law and is further defined by historicity, or the interpretation of its actions as conditioned by the previous and current social and political circumstances. The book then shows that the multiple facets of modernity make the experience of being human fascinating, complicated and ultimately unique.</span></span>
<p><span>This book examines being human in its theoretical, practical, and productive aspects; not in abstraction from historical, social, and political settings but, rather, as set in concrete historical and material circumstances.</span></p>
<p><span>Foreword: close-ups and close-downs </span></p>
<p><span>1. On gods and demons </span></p>
<p><span>2. The other in the mirror </span></p>
<p><span>3. Conversation and critique </span></p>
<p><span>4. The burdens and blessings of boredom </span></p>
<p><span>5. The eternal return of the other </span></p>
<p><span>6. Establishing the laws of history </span></p>
<p><span>7. Names and voices in history </span></p>
<p><span>8. The comedy of philosophy </span></p>
<p><span>9. The gifts and dangers of free speech </span></p>
<p><span>10. The promise of the beautiful</span></p>
<p><span>11. Rethinking the ontological and scientific revolutions </span></p>
<p><span>12. Productive imagination </span></p>
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<p><span>1. On gods and demons </span></p>
<p><span>2. The other in the mirror </span></p>
<p><span>3. Conversation and critique </span></p>
<p><span>4. The burdens and blessings of boredom </span></p>
<p><span>5. The eternal return of the other </span></p>
<p><span>6. Establishing the laws of history </span></p>
<p><span>7. Names and voices in history </span></p>
<p><span>8. The comedy of philosophy </span></p>
<p><span>9. The gifts and dangers of free speech </span></p>
<p><span>10. The promise of the beautiful</span></p>
<p><span>11. Rethinking the ontological and scientific revolutions </span></p>
<p><span>12. Productive imagination </span></p>
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<p><span>Dmitri Nikulin is professor of philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of a number of books including </span><span>Dialectic and Dialogue</span><span>; </span><span>Comedy, Seriously</span><span>; and</span><span> The Concept of History</span><span>.</span></p>
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