Modernity Theory: Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking

by John Jervis

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137496754
• ISBN13: 9781137496751
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"