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- catalog abstract "Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.".
- catalog contributor b10878133.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.".
- catalog description "Voltaire and the limits of reason -- The postmodern outlook for Hermeneutics -- Michèle Le Doeuff's philosophy of disinvolvement -- The dialectic of reason -- Foucault's critique of the enlightenment -- Reason in the age of atrocity -- Ethnic identity in a post-Stalinist age.".
- catalog extent "xi, 161 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791439534 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791439542 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in postmodern culture".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "149/.7 21".
- catalog subject "B833 .R22 1998".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism.".
- catalog subject "Rationalism.".
- catalog subject "Reason History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Voltaire and the limits of reason -- The postmodern outlook for Hermeneutics -- Michèle Le Doeuff's philosophy of disinvolvement -- The dialectic of reason -- Foucault's critique of the enlightenment -- Reason in the age of atrocity -- Ethnic identity in a post-Stalinist age.".
- catalog title "Modernity's pretenses : making reality fit reason from Candide to the gulag / Karlis Racevskis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".