The Intellectual Origins of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780815363125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

David Ohana

Opis

Explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault, which is not to be found in a desire for enlightenment but in the Promethean passion of Western man, the passion of man to shape himself and his world anew.

Spis treści

Prologue: The Promethean Passion of Modernity  1. From Rousseau to Tocqueville: Janus face of Modernity  2.1848: "We are sitting on a Volcano"  3. From Marx to Lenin: A Red Future  4. Anarchism, Nihilism, Racism  5. Foucault and beyond Epilogue: The End of Modernity?

O autorze

David Ohana is Professor of Modern European History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, the Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in comparative national mythologies.