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| Title | : | The Unlearned Lessons Of the Twentieth Century: An Essay On Late Modernity (Library Modern Thinkers Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932236473 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
Chantal Delsol is a professor of philosophy at the University of Marne-La-Vallée near Paris. Her first book to appear in English was Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World, the first book published in ISI Books’ Crosscurrents series.
At the same time, the process of dehumanization so evident in the ideologies and totalitarianism of the twentieth century remains at work. In The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century, the sequel to Icarus Fallen, published by ISI Books in 2003, Chantal Delsol maintains that the age in which we live—late modernity—calls into question most of the truths and beliefs bequeathed to us from the past. Yet it clings to a central belief in the dignity of the human person, the cornerstone of the doctrine of universal human rights to which even secular Westerners still cling. Delsol charges that it is not enough to proclaim human rights as a sort of incantation but that, rather, one must understand what sort of being the human person is if humans are to be genuinely respected. In other words, if the philosophy of human rights is to form the basis of Wester
"a major work" according to Charles S. Smith. As a senior citizen,I have sat with my jaw dragging the the floor,trying to understand the revolutionary change in our moral,political,religious,legal,educational lives. Many people are thinking and behaving differently than our generation, but not in the context of a fad, rather in a more profound manner.Delsol's book is a non-polemic deep but accessible essay that illuminates,li. Dennis B. Mulcare said Delsol Nails It - Humanity's Unduly Hapless Situation. Chantal Delsol distills the unlearned lessons regarding the major twentieth century totalitarian regimes into the last two sentences in this book: "We are not demiurges. We are gardeners." In other words, neither man's essential nature nor reality itself can be fundamentally 'recreated' according to the desiderata of ideologies or through the initiatives of governments. The best t. "Finally and hesitantly, Hope also left Pandora's jar" according to Peter Uys. In this work, Delsol sets out to expose a potentially lethal contradiction. The belief in the dignity of the individual as a person possessing sacred and inalienable worth survives in our era of late modernity. But it lives within a Zeitgeist bereft of meaning or hope in which collectivist approaches inherited from failed ideologies are still consciously or unconsciously embraced.
About the AuthorChantal Delsol is a professor of philosophy at the University of Marne-La-Vallée near Paris. Her first book to appear in English was Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World, the first book published in ISI Books’ Crosscurrents series.
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