The Intellectual Origins of Modernity by David Ohana (Paperback, 2021)
Taylor & Francis
The Intellectual Origins of ModernityAuthor(s): David Ohana\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032093321, 978-1032093321\nSynopsis\nThe Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the one that they found, and to liberate themselves from their immemorial chains. This passion created the political ideologies of the nineteenth century and made its imprint on the totalitarian regimes that arose in their wake in the twentieth.\n\nUnderlying the Promethean passion there was modernityhumankind's project of self-creationand enlightenment, the existence of a constant tension betwe.
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