246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world... Read more
Prologue
1 From Rousseau to Tocqueville: Janus Face of Modernity
2 1848: “We Are Sitting on a Volcano”
3 From Marx to Lenin: A Red Future
4 Anarchism, Nihilism, Racism
5 Foucault and Beyond
Epilogue
Biography
David Ohana is Professor of Modern European History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, the Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in comparative national mythologies.
