Modernity's pretenses :: making reality fit reason from Candide to the gulag /

Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers...

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1. Verfasser: Racevskis, Karlis
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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Zusammenfassung:Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 161 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0585092796
9780585092799
1438416687
9781438416687

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