Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of DecadenceSUNY Press, 01.01.1996 - 260 Seiten This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of the word "after" in a great many contemporary academic titles, and notes a spiritual sort of alienation that many feel in the "modern age." Out of this scholarly discontent emerges one of two related attempts: the attempt to return to a pre-modern manner of thinking and being (nostalgia); and the playful flight into some vaguely defined "postmodernity" (utopia). In either case, the common perception is that modernity is a problem, a problem to be avoided or escaped. Bringing philosophical and theological texts into conversation with one another, the book discovers a startling similarity in the accounts of modernness offered in these disparate idioms. Both are telling a story--a story which, the author argues, is as seductive as it is misguided. |
Inhalt
After Nietzsche? When Unmodern Turned Antimodern | 23 |
After the Polis? On the Use and Abuse of Aristotles Political Animal | 67 |
After Virtue? On Distorted Philosophical Narratives | 91 |
After Christendom? On Distorted Theological Narratives | 127 |
After Belief? Fundamentalism Secularization and the Tragic Posture | 163 |
Aftermath? On Modernist Prejudices and the Past | 201 |
A POSTMORTEM ON POSTMODERNITY | 233 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 243 |
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Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1996 |
Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence Louis A. Ruprecht Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1996 |
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