"Modernity and Identity" is a groundbreaking collective work which
announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on
modernism and postmodernism.
While dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernism
are centered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of the
otherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a matter
of movement, of flux, of change and of unpredictability.
Modernity and postmodernity are shown to mean, not the 'end of
the subject' but the transformation and creation of new forms of
subjectivity. Anthropological concepts are brought squarely into
the heart of the modernity controversies, which are then recast in
the context of tradition, globalization and of the crisis of
identity in a newly de-centred world system.
The possibility of a third way is opened up, rejecting the
opposition between the impersonal rationality of high modernism and
the rationalist anti-ethics of postmodernism. The vision in this
book is that of another modernity, which counter-poses Baudelaire
to Rousseau, and loyalist ethics to abstract blueprints for social
and political reorganization.
This book will be essential reading for students of sociology,
cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology, urban studies and
philosophy.
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