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Peter L. Berger

The Many Altars of Modernity

This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger. It outlines a new paradigm for understanding religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. Along the way, Berger addresse…

Eli Rubin

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

"Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of òsimòsum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubi…

Transgression in the Architectures of After-Modernity

In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and its extended field. However, in recent decades, their frequency and radica…

Jamison Kantor

Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counter…

Stephen Boulter

Natural Law Liberalism and the Malaise of Modernity

This book examines modernity itself. A single overarching policy recommendation is defended, namely, that the West ought not to defect from modernity¿s core commitments to the sciences, market economics a…

Andrew C Willford

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

This ethnography examines clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-physician interactions alongside interviews with psychiatrists and neur…

Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity

Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original ¿formless void¿ (tohu-wa-bohu), chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy at the origin of cosmic order. What has secured chaos…

Georges Tamer

Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.

Christopher Watkin

The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity

The state of nature is a powerful idea at the heart of the fragmented and sometimes conflicting stories the modern West tells about itself. It also makes sense of foundational Western commitments to equal…

Georges Tamer

Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

This study examines the impact of the medieval Muslim philosophers al-F¿r¿b¿, Ibn S¿n¿ (Avicenna) and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) on Leo Strauss. Through meticulous source analysis, Georges Tamer critically eval…

Modernity in Health and Disease Diagnosis: The Account from STEM Women

This book gathers contributions highlighting the role of women in science, with a focus on health and disease. Women have contributed in no small way to the wealth of knowledge and discoveries in various …

Lesa Scholl

Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

"What is the soul? What is the relationship of the body to the soul? This book focuses on these questions in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, exploring the ways in which medicine and theolo…

Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880

It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? This book uses a unique method to map and explain how gen…

Zygmunt Bauman,

Moderne und Ambivalenz

Die Moderne hat sich eine unlösbare Aufgabe gestellt. Ihr Anspruch, die Welt durchschaubar zu machen, war von vornherein zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil er die grundsätzliche Ambivalenz der Welt und die Zu…

Udo Wille

The Fall of the German Empire: Germany's Path to Modernity

As the 20th century dawned, the German Empire stood as a powerful force in Europe¿an industrial giant, a military powerhouse, and a symbol of imperial ambition. Yet beneath its surface lay the seeds of tr…

Udo Wille

The Fall of the German Empire: Germany's Path to Modernity

As the 20th century dawned, the German Empire stood as a powerful force in Europe¿an industrial giant, a military powerhouse, and a symbol of imperial ambition. Yet beneath its surface lay the seeds of tr…

Yasuko Sato

Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity

This book explores Takamure Itsue¿s (1894¿1964) intellectual odyssey as Japan¿s most notable pioneer in the study of women¿s history. When she embarked on a series of scholarly projects that investigated …

Modernettes

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Henri Meschonnic,

Modernität Modernität

Henri Meschonnic entwirft eine Theorie der Modernität als eines Konflikts, in dem sich die Sprache, das Subjekt, die Gesellschaft und ihre Artikulationen wechselseitig bestimmen. Moderne nicht als eine Ep…