Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
- ISBN-10
- 0300198396
- ISBN-13
- 9780300198393
- Series
- Modernity and Its Discontents
- Category
- Civilization, Modern
- Pages
- 402
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Steven B. Smith
Description
11 Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- 12 The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- 13 The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- 14 Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- 15 The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- 16 Mr. Sammler's Redemption -- Part Four: Conclusion -- 17 Modernity and Its Doubles -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
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