Exploring the modern
patterns of western culture and civilization
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Author
Publication
1998 - Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveexploringmodernp00jerv
- ISBN-100631196218
- ISBN-100631196226
- ISBN-139780631196211
- ISBN-139780631196228
and 3 more
- LibraryThing1176441
- Goodreads284637
- Open LibraryOL347968M
Classifications
- DDC909/.0982108
- LCCCB245 .J47 1999
Description
"This book provides the most wide-ranging account yet of the cultural and social dimensions of modernity as they have developed over the past two centuries or so. Synthesizing and reinterpreting the mass of recent research on city life, consumerism, fashion, technology, surveillance and social control, popular culture and the media, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts, the author draws out the tensions in our experiences and images of 'the modern' that underlie - and frequently undermine - the rational pretensions of the modern ethos and modern self-identity."--BOOK JACKET. "Exploring the Modern provides an essential context for evaluating current discussions of the late twentieth-century cultural crisis and debates over a possible shift into the 'postmodern'. The book is theoretically sophisticated yet written in a lively and accessible style, making it an ideal text for students and researchers across the humanities and social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
On 25 May 1895, Oscar Wilde, playwright, critic, man of letters, public figure, was found guilty of 'acts of gross indecency' with men.
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