Modernity and its discontents
Subtitle: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
By: Steven B. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780300198393
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Philosophy; Modern Civilization; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part One: Introduction. Modernity in Question; title: Part Two: Modernity. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self; title: The Exemplary Life of Rene Descartes; title: Was Hobbes a Christian?; title: What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza?; title: Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment; title: Kant's Liberal Internationalism; title: Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World"; title: Part Three: Our Discontents. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater; title: Tocqueville's America; title: Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois; title: The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt; title: The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin; title: Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life; title: The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard; title: Mr. Sammler's Redemption; title: Part Four: Conclusion. Modernity and Its Doubles.