Cultural Pessimism : : Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World /

Cultural Pessimism : : Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World / / Oliver Bennett.

Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilisation or of humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. In an incisive and wide-ranging analysis, Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World charts the growth of pessimism in the...

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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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Bennett, Oliver,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Environmental Decline
  • 2. Moral Decline: Warfare, Human Rights and the Crime Explosion
  • 3. Intellectual Decline: Science and Art
  • 4. Political Decline: The 'New' Capitalism
  • 5. Cultural Pessimism
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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