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  Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity (Paperback) By (author) Stephen E. Toulmin

  

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  Short Description for CosmopolisIn the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its illusions and its consequences.
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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 01 November 1992
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Social Forecasting, Future Studies | Anthropology | General & World History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | History Of Western Philosophy | Mind, Body & Spirit
  • ISBN 13: 9780226808383 ISBN 10: 0226808386
  • Sales rank: 150,379

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• In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 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 endeavour, 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.