The Subject of Modernity

Anthony J. Cascardi, Comparative Literature Rhetroric & Spanish Anthony J Cascardi — 1992

The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.