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Transgressing the modern : explorations in the western experience of otherness /
By: Jervis, John
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Publisher: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999Description: 232 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0631211098 (hdbk : alk. paper); 9780631211099:; 0631211101 (pbk.).Subject(s): Civilization, Western -- 20th century | Civilization, Western -- 19th century | Civilization, Modern -- 20th century | Civilization, Modern -- 19th century | Difference (Philosophy) | Difference (Psychology) | Modernism (Art) | Modernism (Literature) | Modernism (Aesthetics)DDC classification: 909.09812 Summary: Examines modern Western cultural and social explorations of "other" forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable in the modern ethos. The author describes how the body seeks to go beyond the conventional pieties of modern "rationality" to uncover these "other" dimensions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]) and index.
Examines modern Western cultural and social explorations of "other" forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable in the modern ethos. The author describes how the body seeks to go beyond the conventional pieties of modern "rationality" to uncover these "other" dimensions.