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14.1. Background: Defining Late Modernity 14.1. Background: Defining Late Modernity
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14.2. Details: Different Ways to Take the Historical Turn 14.2. Details: Different Ways to Take the Historical Turn
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14.3. Real Differences: Going Beyond “The System” 14.3. Real Differences: Going Beyond “The System”
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14 The Historical Turn and Late Modernity
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Published:November 2019
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Abstract
This chapter combines an appreciation of Robert Pippin’s work on modernity with an elaboration of a thesis I have argued for earlier, that post-Kantian philosophy is best characterized in terms of the growing influence of an historical turn in philosophical methodology. More specifically, I argue that some classical German Idealists, and Early German Romantic thinkers especially, appreciate that we are in a distinctive era best understood as “late modernity.” It is an era of modernity because it does not turn away from the rational insights of the Enlightenment era, the scientific and democratic revolutions. But it is also an era of lateness, because it sees the limits of those insights, and it seeks to revivify the resources of the aesthetic and religious dimensions of human life. Insofar as this approach maintains respect for the fundamentals of Kantian ethics, it can avoid lapsing into historicism, aestheticism, or subjectivism.
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