List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Self-Critical Reinterpretation of European Modernity in a Global Context Part I. Reason, Power and Coloniality: Three Paradigmatic Interpretations of Modernity 1. Modern Reason as Syndrome of Power? Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno 2. The Enlightenment as an Unfinished Project: Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas 3. The Challenge of Decolonial Philosophies: The Case of Latin America 4. Summary and Preview Part II. Transcending Boundaries of the Cosmos and the Ecumene: A Retrospect on the Thought of the Renaissance 5.
The De-Limitation of the Cosmos and the Revaluation of Insatiable Curiosity: Nicholas of Cusa 6. Freedom as Self-Creation: Pico della Mirandola's Oratio de hominis dignitate 7. The Conquest of America and the Foundations of Global Cosmopolitanism: Francisco De Vitoria and Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda 8. Experimental Self-Fashioning in an Unlimited World: Michel de Montaigne Part III. Foundations of Modern Science, Politics and Economy in the Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century 9. Francis Bacon's Vision of Modern Science and Limitless Technological Progress 10. Thomas Hobbes: The Foundation of Modern Politics Amid Escalating Social Conflicts 11. John Locke: The Justification of an Unlimited Market Economy 12.
Epilogue: The Future of Modernity and the New Search for Self-Limitations Notes References Index of Names.