Modernity theory : modern experience, modernist consciousness, reflexive thinking /: modern experience, modernist consciousness, reflexive thinking. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Jervis.
• Authors: Jervis, John, 1946-
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Modernity Theory?; A Note on Sources and Footnotes; Chapter 2 Modernity and Modernism: Key Themes; Foundations of Modern Experience; The Art of the Self (Modern and Modernist); Between Kant and Romanticism; Fashioning the Modern; Chapter 3 Reflexivity and the Project of Modernity; Reflexivity: Aspects and Contexts; Reflexivity and Paradox; The Modern Project; Transparency; Chapter 4 Experience and Representation; Topographies of Modern Experience (Imagining Depth); Painting Modern Experience (The Hand, the Eye, and Colour); Experience as Allegory Chapter 5 The Mediated WorldMediated Sensation: The Vicarious and the Transgressive; The Medium (From Art to Technology); The Mediated Image and the Mass (From Early Photo to Selfie); Chapter 6 Modernity and Civilization; The Aesthetic Encounter: Sensibility as Feeling and Form; Civilization: Conflicting Models; Civilization: Sublimity and Abjection; Chapter 7 The Nature of It All (Modernist Ontology); Boundaries and Folds; The Universe of Science; Speculative Metaphysical Afterword; Chapter 8 The Meaning of It All (Between Apocalypse and the Banal); Evil: Conflicting Models The Spectacle of the ExtremeTendencies (The Horizon of the Modern); Slightly Optimistic Conclusion; Postscript: Some Key Terms; Judgement; Orientation; Cultural Aesthetics; Mediation; Circuit of Sensation; Spectacle of Sympathy; Haptic-Optic System; Image-Text System; Figuration; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 909/.09821; Civilization, Western -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; Literature, Modern; HISTORY / World; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137496768; 1137496762
• Related ISBNs: 9781137496751
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019).
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