David Ohana

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351110495
• Artikelnr.: 55885765

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?