Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society by Rei

Description: Critique and Crisis by Reinhart Koselleck Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Kosellecks reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Kosellecks reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. This first English translation of Kosellecks tour de force demonstrates a chronological breadth, a philosophical depth, and an originality which are hardly equalled in any scholarly domain. It is a history of the Enlightenment in miniature, fundamental to our understanding of that period and its consequences. Like Tocqueville, Koselleck views Enlightenment intellectuals as an uprooted, unrealistic group of onlookers who sowed the seeds of the modern political tensions that first flowered in the French Revolution. He argues that it was the split that developed between state and society during the Enlightenment that fostered the emergence of this intellectual elite divorced from the realities of politics. Koselleck describes how this disjunction between political authority proper and its subjects led to private spheres that later became centers of moral authority and, eventually, models for political society that took little or no notice of the constraints under which politicians must inevitably work. In this way progressive bourgeois philosophy, which seemed to offer the promise of a unified and peaceful world, in fact produced just the opposite. The book provides a wealth of examples drawn from all of Europe to illustrate the still relevant message that we evade the constraints and the necessities of the political realm at our own risk.Critique and Crisis is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy. Author Biography Reinhart Koselleck is Professor of the Theory of History at the University of Bielefeld and author of Futures Past- On the Semantics of Historical Time. Details ISBN0262611570 Author Reinhart Koselleck Short Title CRITIQUE & CRISIS Pages 214 Language English ISBN-10 0262611570 ISBN-13 9780262611572 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.09 Illustrations Yes Imprint MIT Press Subtitle Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States Audience Age 18 DOI 10.1604/9780262611572 AU Release Date 2000-03-13 NZ Release Date 2000-03-13 US Release Date 2000-03-13 UK Release Date 2000-03-13 Publisher MIT Press Ltd Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-03-13 Alternative 9780262111270 Audience Undergraduate Series Critique and Crisis We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159791045;

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