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Author Bennett, Oliver.

Title Cultural pessimism : narratives of decline in the postmodern world / Oliver Bennett
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description vii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Environmental Decline -- Ch. 2. Moral Decline: Warfare, Human Rights and the Crime Explosion -- Ch. 3. Intellectual Decline: Science and Art -- Ch. 4. Political Decline: The 'New' Capitalism -- Ch. 5. Cultural Pessimism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
Pessimism.
Postmodernism.
Regression (Civilization)
LC no. 2001431710
ISBN 0748609369