| Facets of Modernity: Reflections on Fractured Subjectivity Contributor(s): Nikulin, Dmitri (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786615053 ISBN-13: 9781786615053 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $126.72 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - History | World - General - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 909 |
| LCCN: 2021003920 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.33 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to be human in modernity? This book examines being human, in its theoretical, practical, and productive aspects, not in abstraction from historical, social, and political settings, but rather as set in concrete historical and material circumstances. Through the analysis and close reading of a number of texts of the modern thinkers, which include those of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kracauer, Heidegger, Benjamin, Hans Jonas and Agnes Heller, it demonstrates that the complexity and variety of the human experience is grounded in the modern subjectivity, which establishes itself as universal, rational, autonomous, and necessary. Such a subjectivity is characterised as self-legislating or establishing the universal moral law and is further defined by historicity, or the interpretation of its actions as conditioned by the previous and current social and political circumstances. The book then shows that the multiple facets of modernity make the experience of being human fascinating, complicated and ultimately unique. |