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 : Yale University Press, ©2016. |
Description: | 1 online resource (417 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11955246 |
Table of Contents:
- Part One Introduction
- Modernity in Question
- Part Two Modernity
- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self
- The Exemplary Life of René Descartes
- Was Hobbes a Christian?
- What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza?
- Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment
- Kant's Liberal Internationalism
- Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World,"
- Part Three Our Discontents
- Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater
- Tocqueville's America
- Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois
- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt
- The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin
- Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life
- The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard
- Mr. Sammler's Redemption
- Part Four Conclusion
- Modernity and Its Doubles.