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Modernity's Pretenses: Making Reality Fit Reason from Candide to the Gulag (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture) - Couverture souple

Racevskis, Karlis

 
9780791439548: Modernity's Pretenses: Making Reality Fit Reason from Candide to the Gulag (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0791439542 ISBN 13 : 9780791439548
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karlis Racevskis is Professor of French at The Ohio State University. He is also the author of Postmodernism and the Search for Enlightenment.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791439542
ISBN 13 
9780791439548
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
161
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