The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture

680 Pages·1987·1.79 MB·English

by  Lawrence E. Cahoone

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The Dilemma of Modernity

The Dilemma of Modernity : Philosophy,
title: Culture, and Anti-culture SUNY Series in
Philosophy
author: Cahoone, Lawrence E.
publisher: State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin: 0887065503
print isbn13: 9780887065507
ebook isbn13: 9780585091150
language: English
Philosophy, Modern, Culture--Philosophy,
subject
Humanism, Subjectivity.
publication date: 1988
lcc: B791.C18 1988eb
ddc: 190
Philosophy, Modern, Culture--Philosophy,
subject:
Humanism, Subjectivity.
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SUNY Series in Philosophy
Robert Cummings Neville, Editor
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The Dilemma of Modernity
Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture
Lawrence E. Cahoone
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany
© 1988 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954-
The dilemma of modernity.
(SUNY series in philosophy)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Philosophy, Modern. 2. CulturePhilosophy.
3. Humanism 4. Subjectivity. I. Title. II. Series.
B791.C18 1987 190 86-30195
ISBN 0-88706-549-X
ISBN 0-88706-550-3 (pbk.)
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For my mother, Mary Elizabeth Candelet and the memory of my
father, Gerald Francis Cahoone
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I had a dream of return. Multicolored.
Joyous. I was able to fly.
And the trees were even higher than in
childhood, because they had been
growing during all the years since
they had been cut down.
Czeslaw Milosz, "The Separate Notebooks"
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CONTENTS
Preface: The Dilemma xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Modernity, Philosophy, and Culture 1
The Modernity Debate 2
Philosophy as a Cultural Process 8
Part One
The Dynamics Of Subject And Object
Introduction to Part One 17
1. Subjectivism and the Transcendental Synthesis 19
The Pervasiveness of Subjectivism 21
The Subjectivist-Transcendental Synthesis 27
2. Forging the New Standpoint: Descartes 32
The Dichotomy 34
The Transcendental Bridge 42
3. Recasting the Synthesis: Kant 49
The Two Orders of Knowing 54
Relating the Two Orders 57
4. Philosophical Narcissism and the Radicalization of 67
Subjectivism
The Fortunes of Subjectivism 67
The Psycho-Dynamic Concept of Narcissism 76
Philosophical Narcissism 82
The Dialectic of Philosophical Narcissism 89
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5. Subjectivism without the Object: Husserl 99
The Project of Husserl's Late Work 100
The Failure of Intersubjectivity in the Cartesian 106
Meditations
The Uninhabited Ego 118
Husserl and Sartre 123
The Enigmas of Phenomenology 127
Conclusion 131
6. Subjectivism without the Subject: Heidegger 135
The Project of Being and Time 139
Dasein and Disclosedness 145
Levinas and the Emptiness of Dasein 156
The Collapse of Heidegger's Concept of World 163
Conclusion 172
Part Two
The Theory of Modernity
Introduction to Part Two 177
7. Enlightenment and Narcissism: Adorno, Horkheimer, 181
and Lasch
The Dialectical Theory 182
A Flaw in the Theory 187
8. The Cultural Theory and the Rise of Anti-Culture 194