CRITICAL DISCOURSES OF MODERNITY
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"Critical Discourses on Modernity" seeks to counteract the fallacy that modernity is a philosophical stage with fixed contours. Our first step in offering a re-reading of the modern is to renounce definitively fixing a text, a situation, or a problem as a foundational element of any modern attitude, due to the fact that modernity is a process, a transitional historical moment that, if we anticipate, we would have to admit as unfinished, that is, open. The second step to avoid naive interpretations of modernity, and which is the main topic of this book, is to explore the capacity for self-criticism that its authors maintained. The works that make up this book show some of the multiple ways in which modernity could be shown to have maintained a critical view of itself, either through the recovery of modern theses in the contemporary era, or through the exploration of a non-simplistic concept of a modern author, or by emphasizing the crisis inherent in the era.
As can be seen, this book gives a series of examples where the reader can verify that modernity is not a sum of naive convictions, as it has been judged from our time. Broadly speaking, the book can be divided into two parts. The first part delves into the consideration of modern concepts, in their multiple and complex formation; while the second, from a critical perspective that originates in the crisis of the most generalized precepts of modernity, diversifies modern topics exploring ramifications whose disenchanted consideration shows in a better and more adequate way the true limits of the modern.
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Foreword
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The concept of science in Francis Bacon's philosophy: a pragmatist interpretation?
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Transcendence and knowledge: the Cartesian idea of God and its use in science and practical life
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The transcendence of the immanent God: on the pantheism of Giordano Bruno
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Baruch Spinoza at the origin of the critical discourses of Modernity: features of a forbidden philosophy
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Method, time, History: inquiry for a materialist method in Spinoza, Marx and Althusser
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Aldous Huxley and the arrest of utopia: the reactionary critique of Modernity
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Baudelaire, the melancholic image of Modernity
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Reason, a violent human condition
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Walter Benjamin. The debacle of experience and its possible recoveryJustice and narration
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