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Modernity and its discontents, making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow, Steven B. Smith

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Modernity and its discontents, making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow, Steven B. Smith

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Modernity and its discontents

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bibliography

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926820470

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Steven B. Smith

Sub title

making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Part One: Introduction -- Modernity in Question -- Part Two: Modernity -- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self -- The exemplary Life of Rene 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 -- Notes -- Index

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