ISBN:
9781400824694
,
1400824699
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 177 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Byrnes, Thomas A. Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence. Adam B. Seligman 2002
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seligman, Adam B., 1954- Modernity's wager
DDC:
303.36
Keywords:
Autorité
;
Moi (Psychologie)
;
Transcendance (Philosophie)
;
Authority
;
Self
;
Transcendence (Philosophy)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
PHILOSOPHY ; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
;
Authority
;
Self
;
Transcendence (Philosophy)
;
Gezag
;
Zelf
;
Transcendentale filosofie
;
Sociology & Social History
;
Social Sciences
;
Social Change
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, "the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nem
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index. - Description based on print version record
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