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Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow / Steven B. Smith.
LIBRA PN56.M54 S74 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Steven B., 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 402 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Introduction
- 1 Modernity in Question 3
- Part 2 Modernity
- 2 Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self 27
- 3 The Exemplary Life of Rene Descartes 46
- 4 Was Hobbes a Christian? 67
- 5 What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza? 88
- 6 Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment 109
- 7 Kant's Liberal Internationalism 131
- 8 Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World" 154
- Part 3 Our Discontents
- 9 Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater 175
- 10 Tocqueville's America 197
- 11 Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois 223
- 12 The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt 243
- 13 The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin 267
- 14 Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life 290
- 15 The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard 313
- 16 Mr. Sammler's Redemption 330
- Part 4 Conclusion
- 17 Modernity and Its Doubles 347.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300198393
- 0300198396
- OCLC:
- 926820470
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