The Ethos of the Enlightenment and the Discontents of Modernity (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

Oram, Matan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367026414 ISBN 13: 9780367026417

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity.

The Enlightenment is widely understood to be the foundational moment of modernity. Yet despite its appeal to reason as the ultimate ground of its authority and legitimacy, the Enlightenment has had multiple historical manifestations and, therefore, can hardly be said to be a homogenous phenomenon. The present work seeks to identify a unitive element that allows us to speak of the Enlightenment. To do so, it enjoins the concept of ‘ethos’ and its relation to the ‘discontents of modernity’.

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the examination of the interrelationships between ‘critical thought’ and ‘modernity’, based on a fundamental distinction between criticism and negation. It will appeal to scholars and students of critical theory, the history of ideas, philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and political science.

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About the Author

Matan Oram is a Professor of Political Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo; his lectures and research focus on political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas. His publications address a wide range of topics of the philosophical discourse on modernity, and contemporary socio-political thought. His most recent book is Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault ( 2017).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367026414
• ISBN 13: 9780367026417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236