Modernity's pretenses : making reality fit reason from Candide to the gulag /
Karlis Racevskis.
Bok Engelsk 1998 Karlis. Racevskis,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | Albany : : State University of New York Press, , c1998.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xi, 161 p. )
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| Opplysninger | Voltaire and the limits of reason -- The postmodern outlook for Hermeneutics -- Michèle Le Doeuff's philosophy of disinvolvement -- The dialectic of reason -- Foucault's critique of the enlightenment -- Reason in the age of atrocity -- Ethnic identity in a post-Stalinist age.. - Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.
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| ISBN | 0-7914-3954-2
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