Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernism? Dupre challenges both these assumptions, discussing the roots, development and impact of modern thought and tracing the principles of modernity to the late 14th century.

Cahoone carefully develops the idea of subjectivity and narcissism using psychological theory, the dialectical theory of the Frankfurt school, and historians.

This volume thus has contemporary significance. Its sense of the apocalypse, which distinguishes Russian from Western thought, gives the book its specifically religious character.

This book attempts a conceptual clarification of Kant's approach to culture, given the lack of systematic study of this aspect of his thought.

Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernity? In this book a distinguished scholar challenges both these assumptions.