Rethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought
Schelkshorn, Hans
Rethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought - London Bloomsbury Academic 2024 - 498p
Introduction: A self-critical reinterpretation of European
modernity in a global context
Part I Reason, power, and coloniality: Three paradigmatic
interpretations of modernity
1 Modern reason as syndrome of power: Martin Heidegger,
Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno
2 The Enlightenment as an unfinished project: Karl-Otto Apel and
Jürgen Habermas
3 The challenge of decolonial philosophies: The case of Latin America
4 Summary and preview
Part II Transcending the boundaries of the cosmos and the ecumene:
A retrospect on the thought of the Renaissance
5 The de-limitation of the cosmos and the revaluation of insatiable
curiosity: Nicholas of Cusa
6 Freedom as self-creation: Pico della Mirandola's Oratio de
hominis dignitate
7 The conquest of the Americas and the foundations of global
cosmopolitanism: Francisco de Vitoria and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
8 Experimental self-fashioning in an unlimited world: Michel de
Montaigne
Part III Foundations of modern science, politics, and economy in the
philosophy of the seventeenth century
9 Francis Bacon's vision of modern science and limitless
technological progress
10 Thomas Hobbes: The foundation of modern politics amid
escalating social conflicts
11 John Locke: The justification of an unlimited market economy
12 Epilogue: The future of modernity and the search for
new self-limitations
Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index
9781350266773
N70 / SCH262
Rethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought - London Bloomsbury Academic 2024 - 498p
Introduction: A self-critical reinterpretation of European
modernity in a global context
Part I Reason, power, and coloniality: Three paradigmatic
interpretations of modernity
1 Modern reason as syndrome of power: Martin Heidegger,
Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno
2 The Enlightenment as an unfinished project: Karl-Otto Apel and
Jürgen Habermas
3 The challenge of decolonial philosophies: The case of Latin America
4 Summary and preview
Part II Transcending the boundaries of the cosmos and the ecumene:
A retrospect on the thought of the Renaissance
5 The de-limitation of the cosmos and the revaluation of insatiable
curiosity: Nicholas of Cusa
6 Freedom as self-creation: Pico della Mirandola's Oratio de
hominis dignitate
7 The conquest of the Americas and the foundations of global
cosmopolitanism: Francisco de Vitoria and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
8 Experimental self-fashioning in an unlimited world: Michel de
Montaigne
Part III Foundations of modern science, politics, and economy in the
philosophy of the seventeenth century
9 Francis Bacon's vision of modern science and limitless
technological progress
10 Thomas Hobbes: The foundation of modern politics amid
escalating social conflicts
11 John Locke: The justification of an unlimited market economy
12 Epilogue: The future of modernity and the search for
new self-limitations
Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index
9781350266773
N70 / SCH262