The origin and end of modernity

Journal of Applied Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-144

  Trainor, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 0345888399     PISSN: 02643758     EISSN: 14685930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5930.00081     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See chapter five of An essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government in John Locke, Of Civil Government: Second Treatise (Chicago, Henry Regnery Company 1968), 21-40.
2. Examples abound but in the light of our ‘premodern-modern-post-modern’ theme, P. Knudtson and D. Suzuki’s (1992) Wisdom of the Elders, (North Sydney, Allen and Unwin) is the most interesting and relevant.
3. See J. J. Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses, translation by G. D. H. Cole (Dent and Sons, London, 1973).
4. See for example, R. Rorty (1990) Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, (Oxford, Basil Blackwell).
5. J.-F. Lyotard, The post-modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, translated G. Bonnington and B. Massumi, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1984) p. xxiv.
6. I wish, in other words, to applaud and support, and not to undermine, the work of those thinkers who have been endeavouring to ‘bring the state back in’. See B. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol (Eds.) (1987) Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
7. Bernard Bosanquet, for example, in (1965) The Philosophical Theory of the State (London, MacMillan) refers to the state as ‘society as a unit, recognised as rightly exercising control over its own members’ (p. 172)
8. John Dewey in The Public and its Problems (1988) (Athens Ohio, Ohio University Press) holds that ‘a public articulated and operating through representative officers is the state’ (p. 67).
9. M. Clark (1986) A Short History of Australia, (Penguin, Ringwood) pp. 30-33.
10. F. Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, translated T. M. Knox, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1942) par. 260.
11. J. B. Ciulla, Why is business talking about ethics?: reflections on foreign conversations, California Management Review, Fall, 1991, p. 69.
12. J. B. Ciulla, Why is business talking about ethics?: reflections on foreign conversations, California Management Review, Fall, 1991. pp. 69-70.
13. The themes discussed in this article are further elaborated and explored in my book The Origin and End of Modernity; Reflections on the Meaning of Postmodernism, Quebec, World Heritage Press (1998).