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Cosmopolis The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

Paperback • 1992 • English

Cosmopolis The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

By Stephen Toulmin

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In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions...Show more

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9780226808383

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University of Chicago Press

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Cosmopolis The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

Format

Paperback

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