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Autore |
Rajani Kannepalli Kanth |
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Titolo |
Against eurocentrism [[electronic resource] ] : a transcendent critique of modernist science, society, and morals : a discursus on human emancipation : purpoting to be a speculative critique and resolution of the malaise of modernism / / by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth |
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New York ; ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, England, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36421-5 |
9786611364212 |
1-4039-7879-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postmodernism - Social aspects |
Eurocentrism |
Liberty |
Social history |
Economic history |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The modernist problematic : the crossing of the rubicon -- 2. The utopian impulse : mnemonics of affective society -- 3. The fatal conceit : elisions of materialism -- 4. On human emancipation : the archaeology of discontent. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. Kanth suggests, breaking with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, living on a planet damaged beyond |
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