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Reflective Authenticity Rethinking the Project of Modernity
By Alessandro Ferrara
Copyright 1998
200 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity is a challenging consideration of what remains of ambitious Enlightenment ideas such as democracy, freedom and universality in the wake of relativist, postmodern thought. Do clashes over gender, race and culture mean that universal notions such as justice or rights no longer apply outside our own communities? Do our actions lose... Read more
Authenticity and Validity; Part 1 Postmetaphysical Phronesis; Part 2 From Kant to Kant; Part 3 Reflective Authenticity and Exemplary Universalism; Part 4 Post-modern Eudaimonia; Part 5 The Fulfillment of Collective Identities; Part 6 Authenticity, the Text and the Work of Art; Part 7 Rethinking the Project of Modernity;
Biography
Alessandro Ferrara is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He is the author of Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993) and of Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (1998).
'An original, uncompromising vision of modernity.' - Radical Philosophy, 97, Sept/Oct 1999
