Cosmopolis is a mentality and a social order characterized by the quest for certainty and system, and by the assumption that fresh thought can start from a clean slate free of conditioning by one's cultural background. These characteristics are attributed, with good reason, to the dominant movement in 17th-century Britain and France, which Toulmin calls Modernity, or sometimes, a second phase of . 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 www.doorway.ru by: · While fuelling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision contained a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts this agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, by Stephen Toulmin Prologue: Backing Into the Millennium 1. Why talk about modernity? (Because otherwise, we won't understand the expectations we bring toward the future — especially if the "modern" era is coming to an end. Compare book prices from over , booksellers. Find Cosmopolis the Hidden Agenda of Modernity () by Toulmin, Stephen. Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda Of Modernity|Stephen Toulmin, Crooked Foot's Gold (Linford Western Library)|Greg Mitchell, Crisis in Allende's Chile: New Perspectives|Edy kaufman, Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, No. 7)|L.M. Montgomery.
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’s Cosmopolis () is one of those defining metatomes that come along from time to time. Parallels in my limited range of awareness are, for me, books like Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cosmopolis: the hidden agenda of modernity Toulmin, Stephen 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.
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