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This book probes the sources and nature of the 'discontents of modernity'. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity.
List of 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
About the author
Matan Oram is a Professor of Political Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo; his lectures and research focus on political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas. His publications address a wide range of topics of the philosophical discourse on modernity, and contemporary socio-political thought. His most recent book is Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault ( 2017).
Summary
This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity.
