Breaking with the Enlightenment

The twentieth century marked the grand culmination of modernism, set in motion by the material and metaphysical forces unleashed by the European Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. A searing account of the myth and reality of modernism, this provocative analysis offers a critique of the ideologies, and the metaphysical underpinnings, of both capitalism and socialism. Kanth views both as embodiments of the same vein of European materialism, while pointing to the radically contrasting values of these Eurocentered visions of society. Taking the position that human societies are primarily cultural, not material constructs, this work passionately argues for a keen re-evalution of the wisdom inherent in the pre-capitalist, and often extra-European, cultural heritage of humanity in order to determine what lessons might be learned for a human emancipation unmarked by the materialist paradigms of the accumulation of wealth and power.

ISBN 1573923265   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781573923262 (What's this?)   Pages 181 Publisher Prometheus Books   Weight (grammes) 458 Imprint Prometheus Books   Published in Amherst Format Hardback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 19 Jul 1999   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress HX806.R36   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 320.01   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

..". a wide-ranging critique of ideas and assumptions that have dominated much of modern thought and social evolution, ... It is a thought-provoking challenge to received opinion, over a very broad front."

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