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Book SynopsisModernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Introduction: The Modernity Problem.
1. Sensing the End.
2. German Homesickness.
Part II: Modernity and Modernism.
3. Modernity as a Historical Category.
4. The Legitimacy Problem.
5. The 'Culture of Rupture'.
6. Paradoxes and Problems.
Part III: Idealism and Modernity.
7. The Kantian Enlightenment.
8. The Limits of Transcendental Idealism.
9. Hegel's Experiment.
10. Hegelian Teleology.
Part IV: "Nihilism Stands at the Door": Nietzsche.
11. Nietzsche's Complaint.
12. Modernity as 'Twilight' Zone.
13. Origins and Perspectives.
14. The 'Pathos of Distance'.
Part V: "The Age of Consummate Meaninglessness": Heidegger.
15. Failed Autonomy.
16. Modernity as a 'Metaphysical' Problem.
17. The 'Vollendung' of Metaphysics.
18. The Turn, Turning Away, and Overturning.
Part VI: The Death of God and Modern Melancholy.
19. Nietzsche's 'Insane' Prophet.
20. Mourning or Melancholy?
21. Nietzichian Health.
22. Nietzichian Therapy.
Part VII: Unending Modernity.
23. Modern Options.
24. The Dialetic of Modernity.
25. Postmodernity?
26. Modernity as Dialectic.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
