Rethinking European Modernity

Hans Schelkshorn is Head of the Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion at the University of Vienna, Austria.

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: A Self-Critical Reinterpretation of European Modernity in a Global Context

Part I. Reason, Power and Coloniality: Three Paradigmatic Interpretations of Modernity
1. Modern Reason as Syndrome of Power? Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
2. The Enlightenment as an Unfinished Project: Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas
3. The Challenge of Decolonial Philosophies: The Case of Latin America
4. Summary and Preview

Part II. Transcending Boundaries of the Cosmos and the Ecumene: A Retrospect on the Thought of the Renaissance
5. The De-Limitation of the Cosmos and the Revaluation of Insatiable Curiosity: Nicholas of Cusa
6. Freedom as Self-Creation: Pico della Mirandola’s Oratio de hominis dignitate
7. The Conquest of America and the Foundations of Global Cosmopolitanism: Francisco De Vitoria and Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda
8. Experimental Self-Fashioning in an Unlimited World: Michel de Montaigne

Part III. Foundations of Modern Science, Politics and Economy in the Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century
9. Francis Bacon’s Vision of Modern Science and Limitless Technological Progress
10. Thomas Hobbes: The Foundation of Modern Politics Amid Escalating Social Conflicts
11. John Locke: The Justification of an Unlimited Market Economy
12. Epilogue: The Future of Modernity and the New Search for Self-Limitations

Notes
References
Index of Names