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Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Adam B. Seligman
Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Adam B. 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. 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.
190 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 3, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780691116365 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 233 × 156 × 14 mm · 308 g |
Language | English |
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