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«Nous autres, modernes: quatre leçons» is the philosophical essay by Alain Finkielkraut, published by Ellipses in paperback (2005, 358 pages, in French).
The volume brings together four lessons in which Finkielkraut analyses the legacy of Descartes and the turn of modern philosophy: reason, which was meant to ensure mastery of the world and human progress, ends up unleashing processes that contradict its own promises. That paradox of a modernity shaken by its own effects is the core of the book.
The subtitle is «quatre leçons». The work belongs to the École Polytechnique collection and deals with twentieth-century modern philosophy and its presence in literature.
For readers interested in modern philosophy, in the work of Alain Finkielkraut and in the critique of contemporary rationality.
Alain Luc Finkielkraut is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of Répliques, a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Académie Française in 2014.
