Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of ModernityUniversity of Chicago Press, 1992 - 228 Seiten In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."—Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia "[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."—Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books |
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... Practical Philosophy From Leviathan to Lilliput The Rational and the Reasonable EPILOGUE Facing the Future Again / 203 Bibliographical Notes / 211 Index / 221 Preface This book chronicles a change of mind . The viii Contents.
... Practical Philosophy From Leviathan to Lilliput The Rational and the Reasonable EPILOGUE Facing the Future Again / 203 Bibliographical Notes / 211 Index / 221 Preface This book chronicles a change of mind . The viii Contents.
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... practical to a purely theoretical view of philosophy , and that is my central concern here . In choosing as the goals of Modernity an intellectual and practical agenda that set aside the tolerant , skeptical attitude of the 16th ...
... practical to a purely theoretical view of philosophy , and that is my central concern here . In choosing as the goals of Modernity an intellectual and practical agenda that set aside the tolerant , skeptical attitude of the 16th ...
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... practical concern for human life in its concrete detail . Only so can we counter the current widespread disillusion with the agenda of Modernity , and salvage what is still humanly important in its projects . By this stage , my ...
... practical concern for human life in its concrete detail . Only so can we counter the current widespread disillusion with the agenda of Modernity , and salvage what is still humanly important in its projects . By this stage , my ...
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... practical wisdom typical of fields like clinical medicine can also be a matter of personal importance . If we reach the Gates of Heaven , and are given the chance to take up our eternal residence on the same cloud as Erasmus and ...
... practical wisdom typical of fields like clinical medicine can also be a matter of personal importance . If we reach the Gates of Heaven , and are given the chance to take up our eternal residence on the same cloud as Erasmus and ...
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... practical goals can be realized in fact . As we enter the 1990s , the third millennium of our calendar is ten years ahead ; and at this , of all times , onlookers might expect us to take stock , reassess our historical situation in ...
... practical goals can be realized in fact . As we enter the 1990s , the third millennium of our calendar is ten years ahead ; and at this , of all times , onlookers might expect us to take stock , reassess our historical situation in ...
Inhalt
What Is the Problem About Modernity? | 5 |
The Standard Account and Its Defects | 13 |
The Modernity of the Renaissance | 22 |
Retreat from the Renaissance | 30 |
From Humanists to Rationalists | 36 |
The 17thCentury CounterRenaissance | 45 |
Young Rene and the Henriade | 56 |
John Donne Grieves for Cosmopolis | 62 |
The Far Side of Modernity | 139 |
Dismantling the Scaffolding | 145 |
19201960 Rerenaissance Deferred | 152 |
Humanism Reinvented | 160 |
The Twin Trajectories of Modernity | 167 |
The Way Ahead | 175 |
Humanizing Modernity | 180 |
The Recovery of Practical Philosophy | 186 |
The Politics of Certainty | 69 |
The First Step Back from Rationalism | 80 |
The Modern World View | 89 |
Leibniz Discovers Ecumenism | 98 |
Newton and the New Cosmopolis | 105 |
The Subtext of Modernity | 117 |
The Second Step Back from Rationalism | 129 |
From Leviathan to Lilliput | 192 |
The Rational and the Reasonable | 198 |
Facing the Future Again | 203 |
Bibliographical Notes | 211 |
221 | |
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity Stephen Toulmin,Stephen Edelston Toulmin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1992 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite vi - Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone; All just supply, and all Relation: Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are things forgot, For every man alone thinkes he hath got To be a Phoenix, and that then can bee None of that kinde, of which he is, but hee.
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