Springer Cadenzas: Philosophical Notes for Postmodernism: 18 (Studies in German Idealism, 18)

This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical “cadenza” that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics.  From the Back Cover This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical “cadenza” that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics.  About the Author Andrea Poma is full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy). He is member of the “Hermann Cohen Gesellschaft”. He published many books and essays on Leibniz, Kant, Hermann Cohen and on the modern jewish philosophy. By Springer: Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen Thought (2006) and Impossibility and Necessity of Theodicy. The “Essays” of Leibniz (2013)