The pace of modernity
Subtitle: reading with Blumenberg
By: O. Bradley Bassler
Series: Anamnesis
Publisher: Re.press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Prahran, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780987268228
Subjects: Modern Civilization; Philosophy; Modern Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: modernity's runaway pace; title: 1. Theology and the modern age: Blumenberg's reaction to a Baconian frontispiece; title: 2. At what cost modernity: mental faculties and total politics; title: 3. The new poetry and the mimetic locus; title: 4. Jean Starobinski's linguistic modernism; title: 5. Daily rhythms; title: 6. Divagation at the crossroads: in search of modern wisdom; title: 7. Visionary design: mathematical analogues for the reading of poetry; title: 8. The outlook for legitimacy and the pace of modernity; title: 9. Convexity and complexity: trading places with John Ashbery.