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Modernity Theory - Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Modernity Theory - Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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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, unsettling modernism. As the
offspring of the Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility,
modernity is framed here through a cultural aesthetics that
highlights not just an instrumental, exploitative approach to the
world but the distinctive configuration of embodiment, feeling, and
imagination, that we refer to as 'civilization', in turn both
explored and subverted through modernist experimentalism and
reflexive thinking in culture and the arts. This discloses the
rationalizing pretensions that underlie the modern project and have
resulted in the sensationalist, melodramatic conflicts of good and
evil that traverse our contemporary world of politics and popular
culture alike. This innovative approach permits modernity theory to
link otherwise fragmented insights of separate humanities
disciplines, aspects of sociology, and cultural studies, by
identifying and contributing to a central strand of modern thought
running from Kant through Benjamin to the present. One aspect of
modernity theory that results is that it cannot escape the
paradoxes inherent in reflexive involvement in its own history.
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