03016nam 2200685Ia 450 991045106780332120200520144314.01-281-36421-597866113642121-4039-7879-410.1007/978-1-4039-7879-0(CKB)1000000000342798(SSID)ssj0000100128(PQKBManifestationID)11127554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100128(PQKBWorkID)10020273(PQKB)10028739(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7879-0(MiAaPQ)EBC307575(PPN)192775111(Au-PeEL)EBL307575(CaPaEBR)ebr10135384(OCoLC)476087641(EXLCZ)99100000000034279820040422d2005 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrAgainst 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 Kanth1st ed. 2005.New York ;Houndmills, Basingstoke, England Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (192 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-73378-4 1-4039-6737-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 recovery.PostmodernismSocial aspectsEurocentrismLibertySocial historyEconomic historyElectronic books.PostmodernismSocial aspects.Eurocentrism.Liberty.Social history.Economic history.300/.1Rajani Kannepalli Kanth231597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451067803321Against eurocentrism1916466UNINA