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Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey is a 1994 book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which the author tries to "acquaint the reader with the principal arguments, concepts and questions of modern philosophy, as this subject is taught in English-speaking universities."
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich ...
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with Modernism ), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.
Marshall Berman begins this book by making a literary comparison between Goethe's Faust and the process and mode of Modernity claiming that "the whole movement of the work enacts the larger movement of Western society [4]". In Berman's view, the three 'metamorphoses' which Faust passes through (the Dreamer, the Lover, and the Developer) express ...
The book has been reviewed in Philosophy in Review, Mind and Studia Leibnitiana. [1] George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson calls it a "lucid and intelligent guide to the history of modern philosophy." Anthony Manser points out that Scruton reveals his commitment to analytic tradition and is clearly out of sympathy with philosophers like Heidegger ...
The Malaise of Modernity is a book by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor based on his 1991 Massey Lecture of the same title. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally published by House of Anansi Press , it was republished by Harvard University Press with the title The Ethics of Authenticity .
In his book Modernity and Ambivalence Bauman began to theorise about such indeterminate persons in terms of an allegorical figure he called, 'the stranger.' Drawing upon Georg Simmel's sociology and the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, Bauman came to write of the stranger as the person who is present yet unfamiliar, society's undecidable.
Specifically, they aimed to 1) illuminate the stakes of the encounter between the different practices of critical reflection, 2) evaluate some major criticisms of genealogy made in the course of the debate, and 3) offer a critical response to Habermas' position from the perspective of Foucault's practice in relation to contemporary political ...