| Description |
169 pages |
| Contents |
Part 1. The Modernist Revolutions: The Ascent of Europe The Modernist Problematic: The Crossing of the Rubicon The Utopian Response: Mnemonics of Affective Society -- Part 2. Against Modernism: Therapeutics, Salves, and Antidotes to the Modernist Distemper The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism On Human Emancipation: The Archeology of Discontent |
| Summary |
"This work renders an uncompromising verdict on the scourge of our millennium: i.e. modernism, itself the artefact of certain Late Eurocentric propensities. It argues that, whilst modernism is possessed of some virtues and benignities, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed, a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. More urgently, the author holds that modernism imperils the existence of all species and the mother of all hospitalities, viz., the planet itself. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, as portrayed in the work, he further suggests that no other posture is at all, in the highest sense, ecologically responsible. We must, stated simply, he claims, break with the manifold paradigms of the European Enlightenment or find ourselves, soon enough, as mutant beings occupying an alien habitat."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional Palgrave Macmillan |
| Subject |
Economic history.
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Eurocentrism.
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Liberty.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Social history.
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| Author |
Kanth, Rajani
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2004049757 |
| ISBN |
1403967377 |
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