Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

by Adam B. Seligman

Book Overview

Adam 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691116369
• ISBN13: 9780691116365
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"