The fetishism of modernities : epochal self-consciousness in contemporary social and political thoug...
The fetishism of modernities : epochal self-consciousness in contemporary social and political thoug...
The fetishism of modernities : epochal self-consciousness in contemporary social and political thought / Bernard Yack.
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Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1997.
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N301.01/83
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English
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ix, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Fetishism of Modernities and the Secret Thereof -- 1. Imagining the Modern Age -- 2. From the Moderns to Modernity -- 3. Postmodernity: Figment of a Fetish -- 4. What's Modern and What's Not in Liberal Democracy? -- 5. Disentangling Theory and Practice in the Modern World.
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Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1997.
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Indiana
Date Published
c1997.
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In addition to this much-needed clarification of the uses and abuses of the term "modernity," Yack here provides a fresh look at familiar modern ideas and practices such as nationalism, constitutionalism, and liberal democratic politics. Our world, the author suggests, offers us far stranger and more unexpected combinations that are dreamt of in mo...
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The fetishism of modernities : epochal self-consciousness in contemporary social and political thought / Bernard Yack.
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Frank M. Covey, Jr. Loyola lectures in political analysis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.
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c1997.
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N301.01/83
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0268028508 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780268028503 (cloth : alk. paper)
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301.01
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991002175899702626
