Ethos of the Enlightenment and the Discontents of Modernity

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvMatan Oram,Israel) Oram, Matan (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo

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This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity. The Enlightenment is widely understood to be the foundational moment of modernity. Yet despite its appeal to reason as the ultimate ground of its authority and legitimacy, the Enlightenment has had multiple historical manifestations and, therefore, can hardly be said to be a homogenous phenomenon. The present work seeks to identify a unitive element that allows us to speak of the Enlightenment. To do so, it enjoins the concept of ‘ethos’ and its relation to the ‘discontents of modernity’. This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the examination of the interrelationships between ‘critical thought’ and ‘modernity’, based on a fundamental distinction between criticism and negation. It will appeal to scholars and students of critical theory, the history of ideas, philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and political science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-29
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Advances in Sociology
Antal sidor226
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032248462

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Matan Oram is a Professor of Political Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo; his lectures and research focus on political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas. His publications address a wide range of topics of the philosophical discourse on modernity, and contemporary socio-political thought. His most recent book is Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault ( 2017).

IntroductionPART I: The Philosophical Beginnings of Critical Thought1. The production of Knowledge, Rationality and the Critical Spirit 2. The Enlightenment's Horizon of Progress PART II: Modernity and its Discontents3. The Human Condition: Nietzsche's Psycho-critical Discourse 4. Being and Crisis: Husserl's Phenomenological Concept of the Lifeworld 5. Modernity as Culture: A Contextual Reading of Freud's Concept of Discontents PART III: Knowledge and Totality6. The Open-Society and the Enemies of the Enlightenment: Popper's Critical-analysis of Scientific Theory – Historicism and Totalitarianism7. Pathologies of Anti-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School 8. The Moral Horizon of the Enlightenment: Habermas' Rational Reconstruction PART IV: The Changing of the Consciousness of Modernity9. Two Critical Readings: Between Foucault and Habermas 10. Toward a Reconstructive Concept of Progress 11. Deciphering the Enigma: The Prefix 'Post' Conclusion