Surpassing Modernity

Surpassing Modernity
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781350008359
ISBN-13 : 1350008354
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Book Synopsis Surpassing Modernity by : Andrew McNamara

Download or read book Surpassing Modernity written by Andrew McNamara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric or imperialistic-and a booming interest that is renewing the study of modernism. Another dilemma is that the urge to move away from, or beyond, modernity arises because it is viewed as difficult, even unsavoury. Yet, there has always been a view of modernity as somehow difficult to live with, and that has been said by figures we regard today as typical modernists. McNamara argues in this book that it is time to forget the quest to surpass modernity. Instead, we should re-examine a legacy that continues to inform our artistic conceptions, our political debates, our critical justifications, even if that legacy is baffling and contradictory. We may find it difficult to live with, but without recourse to this legacy, our critical-cultural ambitions would remain seriously diminished. How do we explain the culture we live in today? And how do we, as citizens, make sense of it? This book suggests these questions have become increasingly difficult to answer.


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