The Subject of Modernity

by Anthony J. Cascardi

Book Overview

The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and critic Anthony J. Cascardi. Offering an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject or self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521423783
• ISBN13: 9780521423786
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"