Reflective Authenticity
Subtitle: Rethinking the Project of Modernity
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415130622
First sentence: Metaphors based on Babel abound in the literature on contemporary culture: Babel as the poisoned fruit of modern value pluralism, of the inconsiderate project "of finding a short cut to heaven," of the enamorment of the modern self with itself.