The Illusions of Modernity
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16193Keywords:
Dawn, Prejudices, desillusionment, epistemologyAbstract
"We must break the sting of immemorial illusion’, wrote Nietzsche in the autumn of 1880. Despite the undeniable progress made by modernity compared to the obscurantism of the past, the persistence of various illusions and the appearance of new ones explain, with this injunction, that the task remains largely unfinished. Is modernity anything other than the product of millennial illusions? Is it not itself the ultimate illusion, when it holds itself up as the age of disenchantment and wrongly believes itself to be disillusioned? Nietzsche intends to criticise the illusions of modernity and modernity as illusion, the better to develop his own philosophical enterprise of disillusionment
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