Infinity and Perspective

by Karsten Harries

Book Overview

A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world. Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026258218X
• ISBN13: 9780262582186
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher