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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 3 (Conclusion)

Michael O'Meara

Review of:
Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
Read Part 1 here.
Read Part 2 here.
3. The Crisis of the Old Order
“When and whenever [men] are subjects without being citizens, they inevitably endow other concerns and pursuits—economic, social, cultural—with an independent and hence rival authority.” This was the great [...]

Published: December 27, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Review of:
Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
Read Part 1 here.
2. The Culture of Critique
It was the failure to comprehend the nature of the Absolutist State system (its avoidance of divisive political questions of faith and belief) that gave rise to the Enlightenment and its culture of [...]

Published: December 25, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 1

Michael O'Meara

Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
La politique, c’est le destin. — Napoleon
Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.
It cast new light not just on the past it re-presented, but on the present, whose own light informed [...]

Published: December 24, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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