The ethos of the Enlightenment and the discontents of modernity. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matan Oram.
• Authors: Oram, Matan
• Contents: Introduction PART I: The Philosophical Beginnings of Critical Thought 1. The production of Knowledge, Rationality and the Critical Spirit 2. The Enlightenment's Horizon of Progress PART II: Modernity and its Discontents 3. 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 Totality 6. The Open-Society and the Enemies of the Enlightenment: Popper's Critical-analysis of Scientific Theory – Historicism and Totalitarianism 7. 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 Modernity 9. Two Critical Readings: Between Foucault and Habermas 10. Toward a Reconstructive Concept of Progress 11. Deciphering the Enigma: The Prefix 'Post' Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 190.9; Enlightenment -- Influence; Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; Critical theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429676482; 9780429676499; 9780429398568
• Related ISBNs: 9780367026417
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