Being and Becoming: A Critique of Post-modernism
- ISBN-10
- 0313276161
- ISBN-13
- 9780313276163
- Series
- Being and Becoming
- Category
- Philosophy (General)
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press
- Author
- F. F. Centore
Description
Contemporary society, according to F.F. Centore, is dominated by a post-modern philosophical world-view. Therefore, he argues, it behooves the educated individual to know what this perspective means, where it came from, and where it is taking humankind. Lacking until now, from the many works that have been written on post-modernism, is one that scrutinizes its fundamental assumptions and presuppositions.
Being and Becoming fills this need by synthesizing the key developments in contemporary post-modernism. By taking the reader through the various historical periods and developments which have led to the current situation, Centore shows how, that which is now taken for granted by the vast majority of people, is not necessary for either philosophical or theological reasons. Moreover, he shows that post-modernism is not required as the rational foundation for personal freedom, privacy, and creativity. Centore offers an alternative solution to the basic problems that lie at the root of post-modern philosophy. The comprehensive, rational, and scientific approach that he advocates would, he argues, render post-modernism irrelevant and unnecessary. Our intellectual and social-political life would be much better without post-modern doctrine and with a more rational, emotionally satisfying philosophy of being and becoming. Centore's work is certain to prove controversial, but deserves to be given careful attention by anyone seriously interested in understanding the contemporary world.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-05
- 294 pages
- Paperback
- Berghahn Books
-
- 2008-09-23
- 328 pages
- Paperback
- North Atlantic Books
Similar books
-
Being and Becoming: Social philosophy
By Christopher E. MacannBeing and Becoming: Social philosophy
-
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life
By Jennifer Anna Gosetti-FerenceiJoseph, Felicity, Jack Reynolds, and Ashley Woodward, eds., The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). Judaken, Jonathan, “Introduction,” in Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context, ed.
-
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming
By James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna LoyThe rich autobiography of one of the most popular actresses of the '30s and '40s, her own story wonderfully augmented by memories of many of her co-stars and colleagues. 32...
-
The Art of Being and Becoming
By Inayat KhanDevelopment of the personality and a natural mode of life through training of the ego, tuning the heart, and developing will power.
-
Human Being and Becoming: Living the Adventure of Life and Love
By David G. PhD BennerPlease pass this around. We will have a richer and more current Christian expression because of it: a Christianity that is truly becoming in a world that continues becoming and unfolding. Both the book and the author are gifts.
-
Being and Time
By Martin HeideggerThis edition contains a new afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Heidegger's life and works, a philosophic index of core Heideggerian concepts and a guide for terminology across 19th and 20th century Existentialists.
-
Listening to Children: Being and becoming
By Bronwyn DaviesThis book takes us into Reggio-Emilia-inspired Swedish preschools in Sweden, into the author’s own community in Australia, into poignant memories of childhood, and offers the reader insights into: new ways of thinking about children and ...
-
A World of Becoming
By William E. ConnollyThe link between man and the world is broken. Henceforth, this link must become an object of belief: it is the impossible which can only be restored within a faith . . . Man is in the world as if in a pure optical or sound situation.
-
The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America
By Jennifer S. H. Brown, Jacqueline PetersonThe New Peoples contains essays tracing the origins and expressions of identity among the metis people of mixed Indian and European ancestry.
-
The Time is Now. Essays on the Philosophy of Becoming
By Douglas Allen, Carl Olson, Claudiu MesaroșTime comes to us already processed: shaped, engineered, tamed. The volume does fine justice to the notion that we experience time as already shaped by religion, politics, and culture.