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Modernity Theory - by John Jervis (Hardcover)

Modernity Theory - by  John Jervis (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p></p><p>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: <i>Sensational Subjects</i> (2015), <i>Sympathetic Sentiments</i> (2015), <i>Uncanny Modernity</i> (co-edited, Palgrave, 2008), <i>Transgressing the Modern</i> (2000), <i>Exploring the Modern</i> (1998).</p><br><p></p>

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