Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next...
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Author: Stephen Toulmin
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Toulmin, Stephen

Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

$95.05

Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

$95.05
Author: Stephen Toulmin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda-its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.

"By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."-Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia

"[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."-Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books



Author: Stephen Toulmin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/01/1992
Pages: 235
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.06w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780226808383

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