| Description |
[vii], 232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The Civilizing Imperative. 1. Carnival Pleasures and the Spectre of Misrule. 2. Manners and Morals: The Civilization of Culture -- Pt. II. Modernity and Its Others. 3. Exotic Encounters: Savagery, Civilization and the Imperial Other. 4. The Alienated Mind: Reason and the Exile of Madness. 5. Modernity's Sphinx: Woman as Nature and Culture. 6. The Rape and Romance of 'Nature'. 7. Forbidden Desires: Taboo, Transgression and Sexuality -- Pt. III. Continuities, Challenges, Transformations. 8. Blacks, Whites and Hybrids. 9. Postmodern Possibilities: Alienating the Modern? |
| Summary |
"The author's central theme is the relationship of modernity to the exclusions and repressions that have become central to the modern sense of identity, and which have frequently subverted the liberal, cosmopolitan pretensions of the modern West. He shows how an understanding of modernity is inseparable from an understanding of this 'other' side, these zones of distortion and taboo - the carnivalesque, the 'primitive', madness, nature, sexuality, and aspects of the feminine. These are shown to hold a powerful fascination for the modern imagination, and to provide potent resources for transgression, conflict and nostalgia."--BOOK JACKET. "The second main theme is the emergence of transgression itself as central to the modern experience of otherness - the crossing of the boundaries that separate 'us' and 'them', through art, fantasy and the theatrical dimensions of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Western -- 19th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 19th century.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Difference (Psychology)
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Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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| LC no. |
99022429 |
| ISBN |
0631211098 hdbk alkaline paper |
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0631211101 paperback |
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