The End of Modernity
What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us
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- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2010
Summary
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 need for technologically driven economic progress is unsustainable, and potentially destructive of the planet and its socio-economic systems. The new landscape this creates - socially, politically,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780748640355 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0748640355 |
| Author: | Stuart Sim |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 156mm |
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There is always a need for clearly written cultural theory that is accessible but tries to identify macro trends using contemporary examples and data. Stuart Sim excels in this kind of informed, politically engaged, sceptical theory which is not infatuated with jargon or mystification. It’s grown-up analysis for students of contemporary culture. Sim has authority, is totally on top of the material and has a certain quiet panache. – Caspar Melville, New Humanist Magazine There is always a need for clearly written cultural theory that is accessible but tries to identify macro trends using contemporary examples and data. Stuart Sim excels in this kind of informed, politically engaged, sceptical theory which is not infatuated with jargon or mystification. It’s grown-up analysis for students of contemporary culture. Sim has authority, is totally on top of the material and has a certain quiet panache.
About The Author
Stuart Sim
Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market (2012), Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science & Cultural Understanding (2014).
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