Infinity and Perspective

By Karsten Harries

Book Overview

Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262082926
• ISBN13: 9780262082921
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"