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Charles Baudouin - The Myth of Modernity - 9781138829114 - V9781138829114
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The Myth of Modernity

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Description for The Myth of Modernity paperback. BIC Classification: HBT; HP; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

First published in 1950, this was a new work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter, which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing.

The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress, he says, had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things, but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself, reasons for unhappiness, ... Read more

This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire, Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch, The Prestige of Action, Technique versus Mysticism, Opinion and Tolerance, etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this simulating book, now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138829114
SKU
V9781138829114
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Ref
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About Charles Baudouin
Charles Baudouin , Bernard Miall

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