Modernity's wager : authority, the self, and transcendence /
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 ga...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press,
2000
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400824694 1400824699 9781400814640 1400814642 9781282087040 1282087045 9780691050614 0691050619 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
