The end of modernity : what the financial and environmental crisis is really telling us /

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Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis - what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sim, Stuart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
2000-2099
Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Civilisation > 21e siècle.
Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009.
Climat > Changements.
climate change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization, Modern
Climatic changes
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I The End of Modernity? The Cultural Dimension; 1 Introduction: The End of Modernity; 2 Modernity: Promise and Reality; 3 Beyond Postmodernity; Part II The End of Modernity? The Economic Dimension; 4 Marx was Right, But . . .; 5 Diagnosing the Market: Fundamentalism as Cure, Fundamentalism as Disease; 6 Forget Friedman; Part III Beyond Modernity; 7 Learning from the Arts: Life After Modernism; 8 Politics After Modernity; 9 Conclusion: A Post- Progress World; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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