Cosmopolis The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

Name: Cosmopolis The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
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ISBN: 9780226808383

ISBN-10: 0226808386

ISBN-13: 9780226808383

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Stephen Toulmin

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In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda--its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point,…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Backing into the Millennium



What Is the Problem About Modernity? Dating the Start of Modernity The Standard Account and Its Defects The Modernity of the Renaissance Retreat from the Renaissance From Humanists to Rationalists



The 17th-Century Counter-Renaissance Henry of Navarre and the Crisis of Belief 1610-1611: Young Renï¿½ and the Henriade 1610-1611: John Donne Grieves for Cosmopolis 1640-1650: The Politics of Certainty The First Step Back from Rationalism



The Modern World View Fashioning the New "Europe of Nations" 1660-1720: Leibniz Discovers Ecumenism 1660-1720 Newton and the New Cosmopolis 1720-1780 The Subtext of Modernity The Second Step Back from Rationalism



The Far Side of Modernity The High Tide of Sovereign Nationhood 1750-1914: Dismantling the Scaffolding 1920-1960: Re-renaissance Deferred 1965-1975: Humanism Reinvented The Twin Trajectories of Modernity



The Way Ahead The Myth of the Clean Slate Humanizing Modernity The Recovery of Practical Philosophy From Leviathan to Lilliput The Rational and the Reasonable Epilogue: Facing the Future Again Bibliographical


Notes


Index