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Five Faces of Modernity
Matei Calinescu
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Description for Five Faces of Modernity
Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 574.
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity—the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours—is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of ... Read more
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity—the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours—is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
422
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822307679
SKU
V9780822307679
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