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100 _aSchelkshorn, Hans
245 _aRethinking European Modernity: Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought
260 _aLondon
_bBloomsbury Academic
_c2024
300 _a498p
505 _aIntroduction: 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
700 _aBowman, Paul
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