Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction [[electronic resource] ] : Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire / / by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats
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Britt Christopher
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| Titolo: |
Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction [[electronic resource] ] : Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire / / by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (IX, 171 p. 3 illus.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political theory |
| Comparative politics | |
| Political philosophy | |
| Great Britain—Politics and government | |
| United States—Politics and government | |
| Critical theory | |
| Political Theory | |
| Comparative Politics | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| British Politics | |
| US Politics | |
| Critical Theory | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | FennPaul |
| SubiratsEduardo | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Redefining Enlightenment -- 2. Critique of Providential Enlightenment -- 3. Enlightenment and Power -- 4. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. In a time when national democracies seem an imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction challenges resistance theory, providing a cosmology of enlightenment that regards it as an unstable epiphenomenon. The authors outline the current "English" enlightenment of Pax Americana, and provides an epistemological theory and demonstration: a derivative of Adorno's negative dialectics in a positive dialectic based upon intellectual participation in civil society. The book thus ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic, and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural leadership. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction |
| ISBN: | 3-319-70784-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910300517103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice