Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness / John Jervis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jervis, John, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--20th century.

Civilization, Western.

Civilization, Western--19th century.

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--19th century.

Difference (Philosophy).

Difference (Psychology).

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Summary:

This book provides the most extensive and accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of the "other" -- forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the threat that they are perceived to pose to the modern ethos.

After discussing modernity as a cultural and political project associated with notions of progress and the shaping of body experiences through the "civilizing" of behavior, the book seeks to go beyond the conventional -- and characteristically male-oriented -- pieties of modern rationality to uncover these "other" dimensions, involving the carnivalesque, the "primitive," madness, nature, sexuality, and aspects of the feminine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [222]) and index.

ISBN:

0631211098

0631211101

OCLC:

41592932