Exploring the Modern
Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization
(Sprache: Englisch)
Provides a socio-cultural approach to modernity using a theoretical perspective drawn from cultural studies and sociology.
Broad interdisciplinary appeal across the humanities and social sciences.
Includes a glossary and guide to further reading.
Broad interdisciplinary appeal across the humanities and social sciences.
Includes a glossary and guide to further reading.
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Provides a socio-cultural approach to modernity using a theoretical perspective drawn from cultural studies and sociology.
Broad interdisciplinary appeal across the humanities and social sciences.
Includes a glossary and guide to further reading.
Broad interdisciplinary appeal across the humanities and social sciences.
Includes a glossary and guide to further reading.
Klappentext zu „Exploring the Modern “
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Exploring the Modern “
Acknowledgements.Introduction.
Part I: The Modern Self.
1. The Theatrical Self: social drama and personal identity.
2. Subjects and Citizens: the politics of everyday life.
3. Street People: the city as experience, dream and nightmare.
4. The Consolations of Consumerism.
5. We Are Born Naked - Everything Else is Drag : clothing the body, fashioning the self.
6. The Seduction of Romance: fictions of love, narratives of selfhood.
Part II: The Modern Age.
7. Sacred, Secular, Sublime: modernity performs the death of God.
8. Machines and Skyscrapers: technology as experience, hope and fear.
9. From Enlightenment to Holocaust: modernity and the end of morality.
10. Modernism, Art and Culture.
11. The Image, the Spectral, and the Spectacle: technologies of the visual.
12. Postmodern Times?.
Key Terms.
Biographical Notes.
Guide to Further Reading.
Autoren-Porträt von John Jervis
John Jervis has taught extensively in the areas of Sociology, Social Anthropology, and Cultural Studies, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Jervis
- 1999, 372 Seiten, Maße: 17,8 x 25,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0631196226
- ISBN-13: 9780631196228
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1999
Sprache:
Englisch
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