Moderately Modern
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587315181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Birth dearths, looming ecological disasters, and the threat of destruction on enormous scales testify to something having gone terribly awry. What is modernity? What’s lacking in it? Where should its adherents look outside and beyond it? What would they find? And what would a conjunction of a chastened modernity and a newly respected outside look like? It would be difficult to find someone more equipped to raise and pursue these questions than Rémi Brague. If the traditional order of the West located man within a wider scheme of God/world/man, with the former two providing models of excellence for the latter, then modern thought reverses the order, expelling God and the divine from public centrality and, by means of technological science, aiming to make man, in Descartes’ famous phrase, “master and possessor of Nature”. Implicit in this claim, of course, is a slew of topics, claims, and a