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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521423783

ISBN-139780521423786

eBay Product ID (ePID)1485424

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSubject of Modernity

SubjectCivilization, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory, Modern / General

Publication Year1992

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, History

AuthorAnthony J. Cascardi

SeriesLiterature, Culture, Theory Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN91-012689

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 3

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal126

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The disenchantment of the world; 2. The theory of the novel and the autonomy of art; 3. Secularization and modernization; 4. The subject and the state; 5. Subjective desire; 6. Possibilities of post-modernism; Notes.

SynopsisThe question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth., The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and critic Anthony J. Cascardi. Offering an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject or self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth, he carries his argument across the fields of epistemology, literature, political science, religion and psychology. The modern subject proves to be positioned within conflicting discourses, in a culture characterised by its 'detotalised totality'. Max Weber's concept of 'world disenchantment' enables Cascardi to make a searching critique of modernity's sense of its absoluteness, divorced from an archaic, 'enchanted' world. He advocates in its place a more fruitful relationship between historical analysis and theoretical speculation, offering constructive new alternatives to current orthodoxy regarding subjectivity and modernity.

LC Classification NumberB841.6 .C37 1992