The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary PluralismBrendan Sweetman The contributors to The Failure of Modernism are influenced by the view that modernism has failed, and most of the essays attempt to critique specific features of modernism, often from a more traditional perspective. Modernism in philosophy is characterized by skepticism and anti-realism in epistemology, and by relativism in ethics and politics. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
An Interactionist Difficulty | 22 |
Descartes Mathematics and Music | 35 |
On the Aristotelian Heritage of John of Damascus | 58 |
Realism Rejected | 72 |
Was Maritain a CryptoMachiavellian? | 87 |
Richard Hooker as Source of | 101 |
Jacques Maritain Thomism | 141 |
Deconstruction OntoTheology | 199 |
The Postmodern Notion of Freedom | 212 |
The PseudoProblem of Skepticism | 228 |
A Critique of Social Construct Theory | 242 |
EPILOGUE | 259 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism American Maritain Association publications |
| Editor | Brendan Sweetman |
| Publisher | CUA Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0966922611, 9780966922615 |
| Length | 269 pages |
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