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Modernity´s Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Adam B. Seligman
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Paperback. Evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis in the forms of ethnic, ... Read more
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis in the forms of ethnic, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
257g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691116365
SKU
V9780691116365
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About Adam B. Seligman
Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust (both Princeton).
Reviews for Modernity´s Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Mr. Seligman's analysis of modernity is insightful and thought-provoking.
Damon Linker, The Wall Street Journal This book is an erudite critique of existing traditions of Western thought, especially in sociology... [It] offers an excellent critique of the hole that social science has gotten into in trying to understand a rational yet authoritative social order.
Choice A very valuable ... Read more
Damon Linker, The Wall Street Journal This book is an erudite critique of existing traditions of Western thought, especially in sociology... [It] offers an excellent critique of the hole that social science has gotten into in trying to understand a rational yet authoritative social order.
Choice A very valuable ... Read more