The Intellectual Origins of Modernity - Paperback

by David Ohana (Author)

Explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault, which is not to be found in a desire for enlightenment but in the Promethean passion of Western man, the passion of man to shape himself and his world anew.

Author Biography

David Ohana is Professor of Modern European History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, the Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in comparative national mythologies.