Modernity Theory: Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking

Author:   John Jervis
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2018 ed.
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Pages:   166
Publication Date:   10 January 2019
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Author:   John Jervis
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2018 ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781137496751


ISBN 10:   1137496754
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   10 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1. Introduction: Why modernity theory?.- 2. Modernity and modernism: key themes.- 3. Reflexivity and the project of modernity.- 4. Experience and representation.- 5. The mediated world.- 6. Modernity and civilization.- 7. The nature of it all (modernist ontology).- 8. The meaning of it all (between apocalypse and the banal).- 9. Postscript.

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John Jervis is research fellow in cultural studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This book is the culmination of a series of historical and theoretical studies of modern western culture and civilization: Sensational Subjects (2015), Sympathetic Sentiments (2015), Uncanny Modernity (co-edited, Palgrave, 2008), Transgressing the Modern (2000), Exploring the Modern (1998).

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