Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Part One: Introduction -- Modernity in Question -- Part Two: Modernity -- Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Protean Self -- The exemplary Life of Rene Descartes -- Was Hobbes a Christian? -- What Kind of Jew Was Spinoza? -- Benjamin Franklin's American Enlightenment -- Kant's Liberal Internationalism -- Hegel and the "Bourgeois-Christian World" -- Part Three: Our Discontents -- Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: Letter to d'Alembert on the Theater -- Tocqueville's America -- Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- Mr. Sammler's Redemption -- Part Four: Conclusion -- Modernity and Its Doubles -- Notes -- Index
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