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The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity

By Stanley Rosen

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0-300-05030-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
52 MB (54430940 bytes)
Pages
252\252
Time added
2017-08-22 14:55:48

Description

In this insightful and controversial book, Rosen takes a new look at the famous "quarrel" that the moderns have with the ancients, analyzing and comparing ancient philosophers and modern Continental and analytical thinkers from Plato, Descartes, and Kant to Fichte, Nietzsche, and Rorty. He urges that we not dismiss the classical heritage but appropriate it, for this appropriation is an indispensable step in the process of legitimizing our historical experience.

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