Farewell to Modernism
Subtitle: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781433134555
Subjects: Civilization, modern, 21st century; Eurocentrism; Civilization, modern; East and west; Social change; Anthropology
Description: "Farewell to Modernism : On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse. It offers a new episteme based on our true ontic nature--our anthropic species-being--as an offset and correction to all brands of EuroModernist idylls, be they of Left or Right, that have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of annihilation. In sum, this book argues that neither philosophy nor social science are tenable without a true, realist anthropology of the human species that sets limits to both political idealism and social engineering"--Publisher description.