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Cosmopolis
Stephen Toulmin
Contents
Preface . ix
Prologue — Backing into the Millenium . 1
Chapter One — What is the Problem About Modernity? . 5
Dating the Start of Modernity
The Standard Account and Its Defects
The Modernity of the Renaissance
Retreat from the Renaissance
From Humanists to Rationalists
Chapter Two — The 17th Century Counter-Renaissance . 45
Henry of Navarre and the Crisis of Belief
1610-1611: Young René and the Henriade
1610-1611: John Donne Grieves for Cosmopolis
1640-1650: The Politics of Certainty
The First Step Back from Rationalism
Chapter Three — The Modern World View . 89
Fashioning the New "Europe of Nations"
1660-1720 Leibniz Discovers Ecuminism
1660-1720 Newton and the New Cosmopolis
1720-1780 The Subtext of Modernity
The Second Step Back from Rationalism
Chapter Four — The Far Side of Modernity . 139
The High Tide of Sovereign Nationhood
1750-1914: Dismantling the Scaffolding
1920-1960: Re-renaissance Deferred
1965-1975: Humanism Reinvented
The Twin Trajectories of Modernity
Chapter Five — The Way Ahead . 175
The Myth of the Clean Slate
Humanizing Modernity
The Recovery of Practical Philosophy
From Leviathan to Lilliput
The Rational and the Reasonable
Epilogue — Facing the Future Again . 203
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