This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very independence of thought and conduct that it spurns. Freedom and Modernity offers a ...
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This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very independence of thought and conduct that it spurns. Freedom and Modernity offers a positive alternative revealing how self-determination is the very substance of legitimacy for both knowledge and conduct.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x8; Minor shelf wear to binding with bumps & scuffs. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Corners of text block bumped & lightly creased. Text and images unmarked.
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Fine. Book Not ex-lib. Softcover in green, blue and white wraps, 8vo. 1stprinting. xvi + 313pp. Index, endnotes with chapters. As new: clean, tight, square and unmarked with especially bright wraps and pages.
