Modernity and Its Discontents Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780300240238 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Imprint: | Yale University Press |
Pub date: | 02 Oct 2018 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xiv, 402 |
Weight: | 584g |
Height: | 231mm |
Width: | 151mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |