TY - BOOK AU - Schelkshorn, Hans AU - Bowman, Paul TI - Rethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought SN - 9781350266773 U1 - N70 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic N1 - 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 ER -