The Figure of Modernity : : On the Irregularity of an Epoch / / Tilo Schabert.
Two words describe a "modern" world: limits and limitless. Traditionally, humans recognized limits of their power. Modernity meant a break. Its protagonists aspired to bring worlds of their imagination into reality. They taught a new anthropology. Humans could ascend to a God-like status....
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prolegomenon
- Chapter 1. The Floundering God
- Chapter 2. What is Modernity?
- Chapter 3. Discourse On Method
- Chapter 4. The Heritage of the Renaissance: Cosmos and Nature
- Chapter 5. The Heritage of the Renaissance: On the Misery and Dignity of the Human Being
- Chapter 6. The Mastery Over Nature
- Chapter 7. The Crisis of Modernity I
- Chapter 8. The Crisis of Modernity II
- Chapter 9. Gestalt in Modernity: The Constitutional Regime
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects