LEADER 04149nam 2200685Ia 450 001 996211815203316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-1464-2 010 $a1-282-08704-5 010 $a9786612087042 010 $a1-4008-2469-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824694 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756280 035 $a(EBL)445543 035 $a(OCoLC)362557074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204659 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11189239 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204659 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189354 035 $a(PQKB)10810368 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36151 035 $a(DE-B1597)446184 035 $a(OCoLC)979881448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824694 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284096 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208704 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445543 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756280 100 $a20000225d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernity's wager$b[electronic resource] $eauthority, the self, and transcendence /$fAdam B. Seligman 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05061-9 311 $a0-691-11636-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tCHAPTER ONE. The Self in the Social Sciences -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Authority and the Self -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Heteronomy and Responsibility -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. The Self Internalized -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Tolerance and Tradition -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aAdam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, "the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis" in the forms of ethnic, racial, and identity politics. Seligman counters that the modern human must recover a notion of authority that is essentially transcendent, but which extends tolerance to those of other--or no--faiths. Through its denial of an authority rooted in an experience of transcendence, modernity fails to account for individual and collective moral action. First, deprived of a sacred source of the self, depictions of moral action are reduced to motives of self interest. Second, dismissing the sacred leaves the resurgence of religious movements unexplained. In this rigorous and imaginative study, Seligman seeks to discover a durable source of moral authority in a liberalized world. His study of shame, pride, collective guilt, and collective responsibility demonstrates the mutual relationship between individual responsibility and communal authority. Furthermore, Seligman restores the indispensable role of religious traditions--as well as the features of those traditions that enhance, rather than denigrate, tolerance. Sociologists, political theorists, moral philosophers, and intellectual historians will find Seligman's thesis enlightening, as will anyone concerned with the ethical and religious foundations of a tolerant society. 606 $aAuthority 606 $aSelf 606 $aTranscendence (Philosophy) 615 0$aAuthority. 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aTranscendence (Philosophy) 676 $a303.3/6 700 $aSeligman$b Adam B.$f1954-$0144350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996211815203316 996 $aModernity's wager$92176536 997 $aUNISA