TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Steven B. TI - Modernity and its discontents: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow SN - 9780300220988 AV - PN56.M54 S74 2016 U1 - 809.9112 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - History and criticism KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Philosophy KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part One Introduction -- Modernity in Question -- Part Two Modernity -- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self -- The Exemplary Life of Ren�e Descartes -- Was Hobbes a Christian? -- What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza? -- Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment -- Kant's Liberal Internationalism -- Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World," -- Part Three Our Discontents -- Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater -- Tocqueville's America -- Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- Mr. Sammler's Redemption -- Part Four Conclusion -- Modernity and Its Doubles N2 - Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project's most powerful defenders and criticsfrom Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlinthis provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.--OverDrive UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1295138 ER -