The Ethos of Modernity

M.R.M. Parrott's fourth book is a collection of two separate works, the revised graduate Philosophy degree thesis, The Ethos of Modernity, along with another original essay, The Historical Basis of Panopticism. Written mainly during 1996, these two works compliment each other and extend the philosopher's ideas and questions as a discussion of enlightenment and power. This monograph fits with the three other monographs in the series, including a collection of papers, and two works on Deleuze and Kant, and it leads to the bold Dynamism Series appearing later.

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Despite being revised from my 1995-96 Master's thesis, the first part of this book, a monograph on the Enlightenment theories of Foucault, Kant and Baudelaire, is unique. When it was completed, I set out to expand it with a look at the historical basis of panopticism, and I did so without changing the basic framework of the original thesis. The cover art is a zoom shot of the Empire State Building in New York, an obvious panoptic reference.