Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

by Smith, Steven B.
ISBN: 9780300240238
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Overview

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 project's most powerful defenders and critics--from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin--this 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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Smith, Steven B.
  • ISBN: 9780300240238
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2018