The Subject of Modernity

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Paperback | 18 May 1992

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The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and critic Anthony J. Cascardi. Offering an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject or self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth, he carries his argument across the fields of epistemology, literature, political science, religion and psychology. The modern subject proves to be positioned within conflicting discourses, in a culture characterised by its 'detotalised totality'. Max Weber's concept of 'world disenchantment' enables Cascardi to make a searching critique of modernity's sense of its absoluteness, divorced from an archaic, 'enchanted' world. He advocates in its place a more fruitful relationship between historical analysis and theoretical speculation, offering constructive new alternatives to current orthodoxy regarding subjectivity and modernity.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The "disenchantment" of the world	p. 16
Historical self-assertion	p. 16
Modes of rationalization	p. 41
Selfhood and subjectivity	p. 56
The theory of the novel and the autonomy of art	p. 72
The theory of the novel	p. 72
Epic and novel	p. 94
The autonomy of art	p. 103
Secularization and modernization	p. 125
Representation and secularization	p. 125
Secularization stories: norms and ideals	p. 140
The rationalization of religion	p. 152
The subject and the State	p. 179
Questions of legitimation	p. 179
Reorientation in ethics	p. 202
Legitimation and representation	p. 221
Subjective desire	p. 228
Belief and desire	p. 228
Subjective desire and social change	p. 240
Social norms: recognition and transformation	p. 259
Possibilities of postmodernism	p. 275
History, theory, postmodernity	p. 275
Aesthetic liberalism	p. 296
Index	p. 311
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