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Transgressing the Modern

Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness

John Jervis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:28th Oct '99

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This book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of 'other' forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos.

"Transgressing the Modern is what should be impossible: 'a carnival of representation' which subverts controversial boundaries between social theory, the humanities and the arts. It excavates the richest veins in modern western societies' endless struggles to marginalize, exclude and repress whatever makes them uncomfortable. John Jervis has written a wonderful synthesizing book - creative, imaginative and deeply suggestive of a better way forward." Rob Stones, University of Essex

ISBN: 9780631211105

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm

Weight: 435g

256 pages