Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness / John Jervis.
Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness / John Jervis.
Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness / John Jervis.
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Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N909.09812/8
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English
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[vii], 232 p., [4] p. of plates ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Civilizing Imperative. 1. Carnival Pleasures and the Spectre of Misrule. 2. Manners and Morals: The Civilization of Culture -- Pt. II. Modernity and Its Others. 3. Exotic Encounters: Savagery, Civilization and the Imperial Other. 4. The Alienated Mind: Reason and the Exile of Madness. 5....
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Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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"The author's central theme is the relationship of modernity to the exclusions and repressions that have become central to the modern sense of identity, and which have frequently subverted the liberal, cosmopolitan pretensions of the modern West. He shows how an understanding of modernity is inseparable from an understanding of this 'other' side, t...
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Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness / John Jervis.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
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N909.09812/8
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0631211098 (hdbk)
9780631211099 (hdbk : alk. paper)
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909.0981208
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991013078599702626
