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Surpassing Modernity - Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society (Hardcover)
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Surpassing Modernity - Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society (Hardcover)
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For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused
on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity.
Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the
term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric
or imperialistic-and a booming interest that is renewing the study
of modernism. Another dilemma is that the urge to move away from,
or beyond, modernity arises because it is viewed as difficult, even
unsavoury. Yet, there has always been a view of modernity as
somehow difficult to live with, and that has been said by figures
we regard today as typical modernists. McNamara argues in this book
that it is time to forget the quest to surpass modernity. Instead,
we should re-examine a legacy that continues to inform our artistic
conceptions, our political debates, our critical justifications,
even if that legacy is baffling and contradictory. We may find it
difficult to live with, but without recourse to this legacy, our
critical-cultural ambitions would remain seriously diminished. How
do we explain the culture we live in today? And how do we, as
citizens, make sense of it? This book suggests these questions have
become increasingly difficult to answer.
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