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Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence.
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| 著者・編者 | Ruprecht Jr., Louis A., |
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| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 1996 |
| ページ数 | 260 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-27681＞ |
解説
Reading both philosophical and theological texts, this book presents an argument against nostalgia: against the myth of a Golden Age, against the posture that sees "modernity" as a problem to be solved.
This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of the word "after" in a great many contemporary academic titles, and notes a spiritual sort of alienation that many feel in the "modern age." Out of this scholarly discontent emerges one of two related attempts: the attempt to return to a pre-modern manner of thinking and being (nostalgia); and the playful flight into some vaguely defined "postmodernity" (utopia). In either case, the common perception is that modernity is a problem, a problem to be avoided or escaped.
Bringing philosophical and theological texts into conversation with one another, the book discovers a startling similarity in the accounts of modernness offered in these disparate idioms. Both are telling a story-a story which, the author argues, is as seductive as it is misguided.