Ancients and the Moderns – Rethinking Modernity - Tapa blanda

Rosen, Stanley

 
9781587310249: Ancients and the Moderns – Rethinking Modernity
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ISBN 10: 1587310244 ISBN 13: 9781587310249
Editorial: St Augustine's Press, 2002

Sinopsis

In this insightful and controversial book, Rosen takes a new look at the famous "quarrel" that the moderns have with the ancients, analyzing and comparing ancient philosophers and modern Continental and analytical thinkers from Plato, Descartes, and Kant to Fichte, Nietzsche, and Rorty. He urges that we not dismiss the classical heritage but appropriate it, for this appropriation is an indispensable step in the process of legitimizing our historical experience. According to Rosen, the quarrel that is significant is not between ancients and moderns but between philosophy and sophistry, for the continuous attempt of Western civilization to prevent playfulness from degenerating into frivolity constitutes the unity of historical experience. The contemporary crisis of modernity as expressed by catchwords such as post-modernism, antiplatonism, postphilosophy, and deconstruction, could lead to a disintegration of this historical unity. But it also presents an opportunity for rejuvenation, provided that we are capable of the fidelity to the past that is the necessary condition for a future.

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St Augustine's Press
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
1587310244
ISBN 13 
9781587310249
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Número de páginas
248
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