Modernity's Wager - Authority, the Self, and Transcendence - Paperback - 2003

Evaluates modernitys wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis in the forms of ethnic and racial politics.
Year of publication: 2003
Pagination: 190 pages, black white illustrations
Format: Paperback