Freedom and Modernity

by Richard Dien Winfield

Book Overview

This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very independence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791408108
• ISBN13: 9780791408100
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"