Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow /
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| Author / Creator: | Smith, Steven B., 1951- author. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016] ©2016 |
| Description: | xiv, 402 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10814097 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1. Introduction
- 1. Modernity in Question
- Part 2. Modernity
- 2. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self
- 3. The Exemplary Life of Rene Descartes
- 4. Was Hobbes a Christian?
- 5. What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza?
- 6. Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment
- 7. Kant's Liberal Internationalism
- 8. Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World"
- Part 3. Our Discontents
- 9. Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater
- 10. Tocqueville's America
- 11. Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois
- 12. The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt
- 13. The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
- 14. Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life
- 15. The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard
- 16. Mr. Sammler's Redemption
- Part 4. Conclusion
- 17. Modernity and Its Doubles
- Notes
- Index
