Unresolved Moments - Western Thought in the Field of Modernity

Author: Liu Qing
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book explores various topics within the domain of modernity by examining the research and writings of Western thinkers and scholars such as Habermas, Arendt, Schmitt, Berlin, Popper, Kolakowski, Skinner, and Pokok. It discusses themes such as the legitimacy of knowledge and politics, liberalism, pluralism, nationalism, republicanism, and the Enlightenment tradition and utopian thought. The author argues that viewing modernity as a homogeneous whole is an illusion. Modernity is internally characterized by complex diversity and tension.