Publication

2000-07-01 - University of Virginia Press

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99055551

Classifications

  • LCCB841.6.F47 2000

Description

"Harvie Ferguson proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that, although it may variously be associated with the Renaissance, the European discovery of the New World, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, and many other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaced. Instead, he writes, modernity finds its clearest definition through an exploration of subjectivity."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Few concepts have so come to dominate the human sciences, in all the variety of their historical, literary, and cultural offspring, as has that of Modernity.

Excerpt

Few concepts have so come to dominate the human sciences, in all the variety of their historical, literary, and cultural offspring, as has that of Modernity.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Modernity and Subjectivity: Body, Soul, Spirit (Richard Lectures, University of Virginia)HardcoverUniversity of Virginia Press2000-07-01

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