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Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven B. SmithPublish date:2018-08-07Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300240238ISBN-10:300240236UPC:9780300240238Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Political, EssaysBook Topic:ModernSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SC592ZJBB1
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300240238ISBN-10:300240236UPC:9780300240238Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Political, EssaysBook Topic:ModernSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SC592ZJBB1
Steven B. Smith is Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University.
Publisher: Yale University Press

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