Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
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

Smith, Steven B.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0300240236
ISBN13: 9780300240238
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2018
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

Also in

Philosophy

View All