Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Smith, Steven B.

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300240238)

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Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Smith, Steven B.

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

$57.00
Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Smith, Steven B.

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

$57.00
Format: Paperback
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Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project's most powerful defenders and critics--from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin--this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.

Author: Steven B. Smith
ISBN-10: 0300240236
ISBN-13: 9780300240238
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2018
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
By Steven B. Smith
By Steven B. Smith
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Steven B. Smith is Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University.

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