Rethinking European Modernity

Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought

AvHans Schelkshorn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This open access book undertakes a self-critical reinterpretation of European modernity and responds to the need for a global understanding of the development of Western thought. Showcasing contemporary Latin American approaches that align modernity with colonialism, and European theories of modernity, Hans Schelkshorn reassesses the origins of modernity. He brings neglected Renaissance thinkers into the narrative, discussing the work of Nicholas of Cusa, Pico della Mirandola, Francisco de Vitoria, and Michel de Montaigne, and critiquing the views of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke. Across a series of historical studies, Schelkshorn presents modernity as a complex process. His use of the concept ‘de-limitations’ (Entgrenzungen) shows how the new idea of an infinite universe and the discovery of the Americas deeply influenced the foundations of modern science, politics and economies in the 17th century. Making a major contribution to scholarship on early modern philosophy, Schelkshorn paves the way for a more cosmopolitan account of European thought.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Hans Schelkshorn/University of Vienna.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-25
Mått:162 x 236 x 34 mm
Vikt:920 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350266773

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Hans Schelkshorn is Head of the Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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Both historically sophisticated and philosophically original, this is an extremely learned book, the product of decades of research, teaching, and engaging in what Schelkshorn calls intercultural philosophy. It weaves a fascinating story about what makes modern philosophy distinctly modern: from Bacon to Montaigne, it tracks the ways in which subjects, spaces, and time were un-bounded and humans were cast against their meagre resources: reason, will, and passion. The readings of writers are supremely elegant, but also focused. The book also brings into the fray the work of Latin American philosophers who have been both critics and defenders of the Enlightenment.

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List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: A Self-Critical Reinterpretation of European Modernity in a Global ContextPart I. Reason, Power and Coloniality: Three Paradigmatic Interpretations of Modernity1. Modern Reason as Syndrome of Power? Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno2. The Enlightenment as an Unfinished Project: Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas3. The Challenge of Decolonial Philosophies: The Case of Latin America4. Summary and PreviewPart II. Transcending Boundaries of the Cosmos and the Ecumene: A Retrospect on the Thought of the Renaissance5. The De-Limitation of the Cosmos and the Revaluation of Insatiable Curiosity: Nicholas of Cusa6. Freedom as Self-Creation: Pico della Mirandola’s Oratio de hominis dignitate7. The Conquest of America and the Foundations of Global Cosmopolitanism: Francisco De Vitoria and Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda8. 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 Century9. Francis Bacon’s Vision of Modern Science and Limitless Technological Progress10. Thomas Hobbes: The Foundation of Modern Politics Amid Escalating Social Conflicts11. John Locke: The Justification of an Unlimited Market Economy12. Epilogue: The Future of Modernity and the New Search for Self-LimitationsNotes ReferencesIndex of Names