Modernity and its discontents: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
(Book)
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern projects most powerful defenders and criticsfrom Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlinthis provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.
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Smith, S. B. (2016). Modernity and its discontents: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Smith, Steven B., 1951-. 2016. Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Smith, Steven B., 1951-, Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Smith, Steven B. Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press, 2016.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part One. Introduction. 1. Modernity in Question. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part Two. Modernity. 2. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self -- 3. The Exemplary Life of René Descartes -- 4. Was Hobbes a Christian? -- 5. What Kind of Jew was Spinoza? -- 6. Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment -- 7. Kant's Liberal Internationalism -- 8. Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World". | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part Three. Our Discontents. 9. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater -- 10. Tocqueville's America -- 11. Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- 12. The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- 13. The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- 14. Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- 15. The political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- 16. Mr. Sammler's Redemption. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part Four. Conclusion. 17. Modernity and its Doubles. | |
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