Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
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Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691116369
ISBN13:9780691116365
Release Date:August 2003
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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