Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

A daring account of the philosophical development of the idea of a rational society and its consequences for the present

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda--its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.

Author: Stephen Toulmin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/01/1992
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.06w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780226808383
Univ of Chicago Edition