TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacek Dobrowolski
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631713037
TI  - The Rise and Fall of Modern Man
DO  - 10.3726/b10822
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054465
N2  - Award-winning essay in philosophical anthropology meditating on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. The author focuses on developments of modern man’s self-knowledge, understood both as concept of his own human nature and as individual self-consciousness, made possible by the idea that each human being is an autonomous rational agent. The book examines how Selfhood and self-governed individuality connect to science and technology, and offers an imaginative exploration of various modern narratives of human singularity, from Robinson Crusoe to Zarathustra, and to contemporary individual Facebook profiles.
KW  - Anthropology of modernity, Modern self-knowledge, History of individualism, Nietzsche's moustache, Postmodern subjectivity, Anthropology of Facebook
LA  - English
ER  -