Modernity Reconstructed by Jos Domingues
This book is the reconstruction of a critical theory of modernity. 'The Theory of Modernity' is divided into four parts: freedom, equality, solidarity and responsibility. The first three follow the basic ideas of the constitutional revolutions of the 18th century.-
Hegel on Freedom and Authority
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Kant's Critique of Hobbes
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Ernest Gellner and Modernity
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Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
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Poverty, Ethics and Justice
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Imperfect Cosmopolis
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Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right
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Kant's Political Legacy
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Reason, Normativity and the Law
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Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
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Deleuze and Guattari
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John Gray and the Problem of Utopia
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Kant on Sublimity and Morality
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Rorty's Politics of Redescription
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Adorno and Critical Theory
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Nietzsche and Napoleon
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Ideology
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Multiculturalism and Law
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Francis Fukuyama
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John Rawls
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In Defence of Multinational Citizenship
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Hegel and Marx
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The Ethics of Remote Warfare
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Tocqueville Between East and West
Domingues discusses classical topics..in philosophy and sociology...and transforms them in a way that brings new and actual insights giving the subject his own style and character. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst, Professor of Sociology, University of Flensburg, Germany.
J. M. Domingues is Executive Director of Luperj (Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute).He has published several books on sociological theory and has contributed to a number of leading journals in the field.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780708319376 |
| ISBN 10 | 0708319378 |
| Title | Modernity Reconstructed |
| Author | Jos Domingues |
| Series | Political Philosophy Now |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2006-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
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