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Transparency: A Magic Concept of Modernity by Emmanuel Alloa; Dieter Thomä is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Transparency: A Magic Concept of Modernity about?
This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, sincerity and the notion of a public sphere. In a suspicious manner, transparency is entangled in the di
Who reads Transparency: A Magic Concept of Modernity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emmanuel Alloa; Dieter Thomä
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319771618
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Social Science, Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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