The Paradoxes of Modernity: Creating Belief Through Art, Community, and Ritual

by Zachary Simpson

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A paradox lies at the heart of modernity: the simultaneous demand to create ideas to make us better humans and communities, along with the contrary imperative that we criticize all ideals, especially the ones we have created. In philosophy we see this paradox most acutely in figures like Immanuel Kant, who states that we cannot know the essence of things and yet we must retain old ideas - God, freedom, and the soul - in order to become better and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3030990559

ISBN13:9783030990558

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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