Exploring the Modern Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization

Name: Exploring the Modern Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization
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ISBN: 9780631196228

ISBN-10: 0631196226

ISBN-13: 9780631196228

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Jervis

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This unique text traces the history and socio-cultural formations of modernity from early modern Europe to the era of global postmodernity.

Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.72" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Modern Self



The Theatrical Self: social drama and personal identity



Subjects and Citizens: the politics of everyday life



Street People: the city as experience, dream and nightmare



The Consolations of Consumerism



'We Are Born Naked - Everything Else is Drag': clothing the body, fashioning the self



The Seduction of Romance: fictions of love, narratives of selfhood



The Modern Age



Sacred, Secular, Sublime: modernity performs the death of God



Machines and Skyscrapers: technology as experience, hope and fear



From Enlightenment to Holocaust: modernity and the end of morality



Modernism, Art and Culture



The Image, the Spectral, and the Spectacle: technologies of the visual



Postmodern Times?


Key Terms


Biographical Notes


Guide to Further Reading