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The End of the Modern Age
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Alan Wheelis's The End of the Modern Age examines transformations in Western intellectual life, particularly the waning confidence in modernist narratives and frameworks.
Wheelis discusses how scientific and mechanistic metaphors reshaped human self-understanding and the humanities' aspirations to scientific status.
The book analyzes cultural consequences of these shifts, including disillusionment with grand narratives and the re-evaluation of modernity's claims.
Wheelis draws on interdisciplinary sources to trace changes from Enlightenment optimism to later skepticism.
His work provides a reflective critique of the trajectory of Western thought across the modern period.
Wheelis discusses how scientific and mechanistic metaphors reshaped human self-understanding and the humanities' aspirations to scientific status.
The book analyzes cultural consequences of these shifts, including disillusionment with grand narratives and the re-evaluation of modernity's claims.
Wheelis draws on interdisciplinary sources to trace changes from Enlightenment optimism to later skepticism.
His work provides a reflective critique of the trajectory of Western thought across the modern period.
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