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Transgressing the Modern

Autor John Jervis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 1999
This book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of 'other' forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631211105
ISBN-10: 0631211101
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

advanced students and researchers interested in modernity; general readers

Notă biografică

John Jervis has taught extensively in the areas of Sociology, Social Anthropology, and Cultural Studies, at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His previous book, Exploring the Modern (1999) is also published by Blackwell Publishers.

Cuprins

List of Plates. Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: The Civilising Imperative.
1. Carnival Pleasures and The Spectre of Misrule.
2. Manners and Morals: The Civilisation of Culture.
Part II: Modernity and its Others.
3. Exotic Encounters: Savagery, Civilisation and the Imperial Other.
4. The Alienated Mind: Reason and The Exile of Madness.
5. Modernity's Sphinx: Woman as Nature and Culture.
6. The Rape and Romance of 'Nature'.
7. Forbidden Desires: Taboo, Transgression and Sexuality.
Part III: Continuities, Challenges, Transformations.
8. Blacks, Whites and Hybrids.
9. Postmodern Possibilities: Alienating The Modern.
Key Terms.
Guide to Further Reading.
Index.