Modernity on Endless Trial

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Copyright Title Page Contents Foreword I. On Modernity, Barbarity, and Intellectuals 1. Modernity on Endless Trial 2. Looking for the Barbarians: The Illusions of Cultural Universalism 3. The Intellectuals 4. Why Do We Need Kant? 5. In Praise of Exile II. On the Dilemmas of the Christian Legacy 6. The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture 7. Can the Devil Be Saved? 8. On the So-Called Crisis of Christianity 9. The Illusion of Demythologization 10. Philosophical Faith in the Face of Revelation 11. From Truth to Truth III. On Liberals, Revolutionaries, and Utopians 12. The Death of Utopia Reconsidered 13. The Idolatry of Politics 14. The Self-Poisoning of the Open Society 15. Politics and the Devil 16. Irrationality in Politics 17. Marxism and Human Rights 18. Revolution—a Beautiful Sickness 19. How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist: A Credo IV. On Scientific Theories 20. Why an Ideology Is Always Right 21. The General Theory of Not-Gardening 22. Fabula mundi and Cleopatra’s Nose 23. Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate Epilogue: Education to Hatred, Education to Dignity Notes