Mack Dr Michael (Reader Durham University Uk)
Mack Dr Michael (Reader Durham University Uk) - Disappointment Its Modern Roots From Spinoza To Contemporary Literature - Paperback
Mack Dr Michael (Reader Durham University Uk) - Disappointment Its Modern Roots From Spinoza To Contemporary Literature - Paperback
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Description: Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump's America first policies this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing these neglected motivations within contemporary populism Michael Mack explores how our current sense of disappointment with our ecological economic and political state of affairs partakes of a history of failed promises that goes back to the inception of modernity; namely to Spinoza's radical enlightenment of diversity and equality. Through this innovative approach Spinoza emerges less as a single isolated figure and more as a sign for an intellectual constellation of thinkers and writers who from the romantics to contemporary theory and literature have introduced various shifts in the way we see humanity as being limited and prone to disappointment. Combining intellectual history with literary and scientific theory the book traces the collapse of traditional values and orders from Spinoza to Nietzsche and then to the literary modernism of Joseph Conrad and postmodernism of Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon.
Title: Disappointment Its Modern Roots From Spinoza To Contemporary Literature
Author(s): Mack Dr Michael (Reader Durham University Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501366871
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2021
Category: Social & Political Philosophy
Description: Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump's America first policies this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing these neglected motivations within contemporary populism Michael Mack explores how our current sense of disappointment with our ecological economic and political state of affairs partakes of a history of failed promises that goes back to the inception of modernity; namely to Spinoza's radical enlightenment of diversity and equality. Through this innovative approach Spinoza emerges less as a single isolated figure and more as a sign for an intellectual constellation of thinkers and writers who from the romantics to contemporary theory and literature have introduced various shifts in the way we see humanity as being limited and prone to disappointment. Combining intellectual history with literary and scientific theory the book traces the collapse of traditional values and orders from Spinoza to Nietzsche and then to the literary modernism of Joseph Conrad and postmodernism of Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon.
Title: Disappointment Its Modern Roots From Spinoza To Contemporary Literature
Author(s): Mack Dr Michael (Reader Durham University Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501366871
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2021
Category: Social & Political Philosophy
