Moderately modern

Brague, Rémi 1947- (author.).

Summary: Moderately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity?s ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort zone. Implicit in this claim, of course, is a slew of topics, claims, and an argument. What is modernity? What?s lacking in it? Where should its adherents look outside and beyond it? What would they find? And what would a conjunction of a chastened modernity and a newly respected outside look like? It would be difficult to find someone more equipped to raise and pursue these questions than R?mi Brague.

Record details

ISBN: 9781587315183 : HRD
ISBN: 1587315181 : HRD
Physical Description: print
255 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: South Bend : St. Augustines Press, Inc., 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Modernity as a problem -- On modernitis -- Can europe survive modernity? -- From one transcendental to another -- Sacred cows or mad cows? -- To ground reason -- Atheism or superstition? -- Is secularization modern? -- Democracy and theocracy -- Reactionto progress -- Culture -- Are there really two cultures? -- Does culture support the idea of truth? -- Heirs without a will? -- To temporize -- From time to time -- How one writes history -- The conditions of a future -- Reconstruction -- An educational dream -- Not to betray: the tradition.