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Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly

The Modern Religion of Conscience

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • 15.8 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

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"Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly" presents a genealogy and critique of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. It shows why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy compromised the ideal of self-legislated freedom.Left to itself, the conscientious individual has only the world it legitimates through self-relating. But given that any other world is inconceivable, the conscientious individual can never know whether its world is just or merely the expression of self-interest. Paradoxically, Pacini argues, the most formidable proponents of the modern religion of conscience share with their critics a common problem: the self-legislating self has become both indispensable and impossible within much of modern philosophy and theology. This unique and interdisciplinary interpretation of conscience makes an important contribution for scholars and students of modern philosophy, Christian theology, psychoanalytic theory, and literary criticism.
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  • Author

    David S. Pacini

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fordham University Press

  • Published

    December 2008

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780823229642

  • ISBN-10

    0823229645

  • Eden Code

    1246634

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