Modernity and Subjectivity : Body, Soul, Spirit
Harvie Ferguson
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Paperback. This work proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that although it may variously be associated wtih the Renaissance, the discovery of the New World and other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaces. Series: Richard Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality - modern society, modern life, modern times, modern art, modern science, modern music, the modern world - has been cited as a part of modernity's distinctive and all-embracing presence. But what is the exact nature of the reality to which the term ""modern"" refers? Has not such a promiscuous, ill-defined concept come to obscure and confuse rather than clarify a genuine understanding of our experience? This work proposes a ... Read more
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality - modern society, modern life, modern times, modern art, modern science, modern music, the modern world - has been cited as a part of modernity's distinctive and all-embracing presence. But what is the exact nature of the reality to which the term ""modern"" refers? Has not such a promiscuous, ill-defined concept come to obscure and confuse rather than clarify a genuine understanding of our experience? This work proposes a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Richard Lectures
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813919669
SKU
V9780813919669
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