The Spirit of Modernity: The Last Years of Philosophy and the Beginning of the New Enlightenment. 1948–1984
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The Spirit of Modernity: The Last Years of Philosophy and the Beginning of the New Enlightenment. 1948–1984
14.99 €
Wolfram Eilenberger's new book, "The Spirit of Modernity," explores the intellectual quests of the turbulent postwar era. The global upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s, when old ideals seemed definitively forgotten, were followed by an unstable time of change, providing fertile ground for the development of new, non-classical theories. Eilenberger focuses on four destinies that shaped the development of modern philosophy, science, and culture: Theodor Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, and Paul Feyerabend. Each developed their own critical project—"Negative Dialectics," "Against Method," a critique of power, violence, discourse, and rationality. Together with his characters, the author embarks on a captivating adventure that takes them through Frankfurt, Berkeley, New York, Vienna, and Harvard, culminating with Foucault's death in Paris. Along this path, he encounters other prominent thinkers of the era—Walter Benjamin, Karl Popper, Jürgen Habermas, and Herbert Marcuse. Thus, by reflecting on the phenomena and ideas of the past, delving into discussions of the events of May 1968, the Vietnam War, and the art of camp, Eilenberger seeks to come closer to understanding our present and to see how the spirit of modernity was born.
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