Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity is a philosophical work that critiques the rationalist foundations of modern Western thought and argues for a more historically grounded, human-centered understanding of reason and modernity.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
academicDiscipline intellectual history
philosophy
arguesFor historically grounded understanding of reason
human-centered understanding of modernity
author Stephen Toulmin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques Cartesian rationalism
abstract universalism in modern philosophy
emphasizes contingency in history
historical context of philosophical ideas
human finitude
practical reasoning
examines impact of scientific revolution on philosophy
relationship between science and ethics
role of uncertainty in human life
transition from Renaissance to modernity
focusesOnPeriod 17th century
early modern Europe
genre intellectual history
philosophy
hasPerspective critique of rationalist foundations of modernity
hasTheme critique of modern concept of certainty
interplay of politics and epistemology
limits of scientific rationality
pluralism in modern societies
recovery of Renaissance humanism
influencedBy Renaissance humanism
history of science
language English
mainTopic Enlightenment
Western philosophy
history of ideas
modern Western thought
modernity
rationalism
reason
philosophicalTradition history and philosophy of science
pragmatism-adjacent thought
proposes reassessment of the Enlightenment project
publisher University of Chicago Press
relatedWork The Uses of Argument
targetAudience historians of ideas
philosophers
students of modernity

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