The End of Modernity : : What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us /

The End of Modernity : : What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us / / Stuart Sim.

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Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis - what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards.In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Sim, Stuart,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I The End of Modernity? The Cultural Dimension
  • 1 Introduction: The End of Modernity
  • 2 Modernity: Promise and Reality
  • 3 Beyond Postmodernity
  • Part II The End of Modernity? The Economic Dimension
  • 4 Marx was Right, But . . .
  • 5 Diagnosing the Market: Fundamentalism as Cure, Fundamentalism as Disease
  • 6 Forget Friedman
  • Part III Beyond Modernity
  • 7 Learning from the Arts: Life After Modernism
  • 8 Politics After Modernity
  • 9 Conclusion: A Post- Progress World
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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