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than for the people,’’ and justice is lost. The Utopians, on the other hand, have abolished private property andWnd it shocking ...

for going too far, but for failing to go far enough; they did not, like the Spartan kings Agis and Cleomenes, wholeheartedly ins ...

doomed the Roman Republic, and, accordingly, if England wished to main- tain its own commonwealth, it would have to embrace the ...

Burke,P. 1966. A survey of the popularity of the ancient historians, 1450 – 1700. History and Theory, 5 : 135 – 52. Cappon,L. J. ...

More,T. 1995 .Utopia, ed. G. M. Logan, R. M. Adams, and C. H. Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nelson,E. 2001. Gre ...

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an independent judiciary and free press, public education, capitalism, and monogamous marriage. ‘‘Modernity and Its Critics,’’ t ...

recapitulation of Europe’s owninternalstruggle between modern and anti- modern forces, between, that is, ‘‘Enlightenment notions ...

modernities, such work resists the idea that modernity has a single lineage or is a univocal practice. This resistance is also s ...

invention of) the realm of private ‘‘values’’ and aesthetic, sexual, or mystical ‘‘experiences.’’ Weber acknowledges that the ‘‘ ...

along with angels, heavenly bodies, and our fellow earthly creatures. This hierarchical order in the universe was reXected in th ...

degree of critical acumen. The story ends, as do all fables, with some advice: do not resent the condition of modernity, counsel ...

‘‘for its own immediate consumption.’’ In the commodity form, ‘‘the product becomes increasingly one-sided.... [I]ts immediate u ...

delusion and passivity, passivity with commodity culture. And this line of equivalences is contrasted with another, consisting o ...

forces have almost wholly triumphed. Almost—for these heirs of Marx still harbor hope for a way out through the demystifying pra ...

Let us consider critics who contest this nature-picture. Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ), for example, rejects modernity’s ‘‘en ...

Nature appears in this work as neither imbued with divine purpose nor as disenchanted matter. Instead, all material formations—h ...

References Asad,T. 2003 .Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ...

Gatens,M. 1996 .Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality. New York: Routledge. Heidegger,M. 1982 .The Question Concernin ...

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