The Disenchantment of the World
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Abstract
The chapter introduces the central problematic in the text: that of the disenchantment of the world. Modern people reflect on their values, life conditions, and goals in a way that is markedly different from that of traditional people. Modern humans are much less deeply “embedded” in their socio-cultural horizon of values. Art also becomes philosophical and disenchanted. How can the philosophy of Martin Heidegger be understood as a response to the problem of disenchantment? What are the various modes and manners of reinvigorating a society that has become ratiocinated by instrumental rationality, egoism, and the domination of nature as resources for technical progress?
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Modern Human Instrumental Rationality Religious Fundamentalism Modern People Modern Individual
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Notes
- 1.Habermas, Jürgen, The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Boston: Beacon Press, 1985: 157.Google Scholar
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