Modernity Theory Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jervis, John (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature-Philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Literary Theory.; Social Theory.

Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as 'modern' (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in the name of a fluid, unsettled, un...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.