Passage to Modernity: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture

by Louis Dupré

Book Overview

An exploration of the origin and impact of modernity, and of its sustained influence on contemporary culture

Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernity? In this book a distinguished scholar challenges both these assumptions. Louis Dupr discusses the roots, development, and impact of modern thought, tracing the fundamental principles of modernity to the late fourteenth century and affirming that modernity is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065019
• ISBN13: 9780300065015
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"