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Modernity theory :

1137496762

9781137496768

1137496754

9781137496751

Modernity theory :

[Book]

modern experience, modernist consciousness, reflexive thinking /

John Jervis.

New York, NY :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Modernity Theory?; A Note on Sources and Footnotes; Chapter 2 Modernity and Modernism: Key Themes; Foundations of Modern Experience; The Art of the Self (Modern and Modernist); Between Kant and Romanticism; Fashioning the Modern; Chapter 3 Reflexivity and the Project of Modernity; Reflexivity: Aspects and Contexts; Reflexivity and Paradox; The Modern Project; Transparency; Chapter 4 Experience and Representation; Topographies of Modern Experience (Imagining Depth); Painting Modern Experience (The Hand, the Eye, and Colour); Experience as Allegory

Chapter 5 The Mediated WorldMediated Sensation: The Vicarious and the Transgressive; The Medium (From Art to Technology); The Mediated Image and the Mass (From Early Photo to Selfie); Chapter 6 Modernity and Civilization; The Aesthetic Encounter: Sensibility as Feeling and Form; Civilization: Conflicting Models; Civilization: Sublimity and Abjection; Chapter 7 The Nature of It All (Modernist Ontology); Boundaries and Folds; The Universe of Science; Speculative Metaphysical Afterword; Chapter 8 The Meaning of It All (Between Apocalypse and the Banal); Evil: Conflicting Models

The Spectacle of the ExtremeTendencies (The Horizon of the Modern); Slightly Optimistic Conclusion; Postscript: Some Key Terms; Judgement; Orientation; Cultural Aesthetics; Mediation; Circuit of Sensation; Spectacle of Sympathy; Haptic-Optic System; Image-Text System; Figuration; Index

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Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as?modern? (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in the name of a fluid, unsettled, unsettling modernism. As the offspring of the Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility, modernity is framed here through a cultural aesthetics that highlights not just an instrumental, exploitative approach to the world but the distinctive configuration of embodiment, feeling, and imagination, that we refer to as?civilization?, in turn both explored and subverted through modernist experimentalism and reflexive thinking in culture and the arts. This discloses the rationalizing pretensions that underlie the modern project and have resulted in the sensationalist, melodramatic conflicts of good and evil that traverse our contemporary world of politics and popular culture alike. This innovative approach permits modernity theory to link otherwise fragmented insights of separate humanities disciplines, aspects of sociology, and cultural studies, by identifying and contributing to a central strand of modern thought running from Kant through Benjamin to the present. One aspect of modernity theory that results is that it cannot escape the paradoxes inherent in reflexive involvement in its own history.

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Modernity theory.

9781137496751

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940.

Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804.

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940.

Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804.

Civilization, Western-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern.

Civilization, Western-- Philosophy.

HISTORY-- World.

Literature, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern.

HIS-- 037000

Jervis, John,1946-

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