Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Promethean Chains

Modernity and Enlightenment are on a perpetual axis of mutual tension. The paths of modernity are tortuous, and its roots are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western man to be his own master, to use his insight to make a world...

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Main Author: Ohana, David (Author)
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 383-408
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