Modernity and the Political Fix

by Andrew Gibson

Book Overview

From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. The polarities that an ironic grasp of it could potentially always hold in tension are finally collapsing into each other.

In Modernity and the Political Fix, Andrew Gibson tells the relevant story and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350212547
• ISBN13: 9781350212541
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"