Modernité en transit / sous la direction de Richard Dube ... [et al.] = Modernity in transit / edited by Richard Dube ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dubé, Richard, 1975- editor.

Gin, Pascal, editor.

Moser, Walter, 1942- editor.

Pires, Alvaro P., editor.

Series:

Collection Transferts culturels.

Transferts culturels = Cultural transfers

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Other Title:

Modernity in transit

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press, 2009

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1979, Jean-Francois Lyotard sketched out the postmodern condition, announcing the demise of modernity. However, modernity perseveres, reinventing itself within shifting temporal contexts. This title focuses on this historical, cultural and social paradigm.

Contents:

Les modernités et leur persistance / Walter Moser

Ptie 1re, Repenser la modernité. Les figurations de la dodernité et de sa crise dans Les affinités électives / Walter Moser ; Modernity, science and democracy / Sandra Harding ; La refondation de la société moderne / Richard Dubé et Alvaro Pires

Ptie 2ème, Modernités plurielles. Information and literature beyond the "digital divide" / Robert Stockhammer ; One modernity or many? : transcultural imperatives in literary studies / Frank Schulze-Engler

Modernité et anti-modernité au Japon / Bernard Bernier

Ptie 3e, Postmodernisme and beyond : topographies. Exploring post/modern urban space : homelessness and american literature / Dorothea Löbbermann ; Meganarratives of supermodernism : the spectre of the public sphere / Mark Kingwell

Ptie 4ème, Vers de nouveaux cosmopolitismes. Goût, modernité et postmodernité : autour de la notion de diversité culturelle / Michèle Ollivier et Viviana Fridman ; Les secondes noces de la modernité et de la mondialité / Alexis Nouss

Ptie 5ème, What do we have in common? : modernity and the paradoxes of postnational integration / Thorsten Bonacker ; Penser le nombre (peuple ou multitude) / Gilles Labelle ; Transits contemporains de la modernité / Pascal Gin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613667779

9781280690839

1280690836

9780776618821

0776618822

OCLC:

745977378