Exploring the modern
Subtitle: patterns of western culture and civilisation
By: John Jervis.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Malden, Ma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Civilization, Western -- 20th century; Civilization, Western -- 19th century; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Civilization, Modern -- 19th century; Social change; Modernism (Art); Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Aesthetics)
Description: "This book provides the most wide-ranging account yet of the cultural and social dimensions of modernity as they have developed over the past two centuries or so.

Synthesizing and reinterpreting the mass of recent research on city life, consumerism, fashion, technology, surveillance and social control, popular culture and the media, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts, the author draws out the tensions in our experiences and images of 'the modern' that underlie - and frequently undermine - the rational pretensions of the modern ethos and modern self-identity."--BOOK JACKET.

"Exploring the Modern provides an essential context for evaluating current discussions of the late twentieth-century cultural crisis and debates over a possible shift into the 'postmodern'. The book is theoretically sophisticated yet written in a lively and accessible style, making it an ideal text for students and researchers across the humanities and social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.