04224nam 2200733 450 99630876430331620200520144314.03-11-045546-33-11-045531-510.1515/9783110455311(CKB)3710000000553308(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057444(DE-B1597)460485(OCoLC)940518637(OCoLC)979783434(OCoLC)980224765(DE-B1597)9783110455311(Au-PeEL)EBL4179784(CaPaEBR)ebr11123904(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56712(CaSebORM)9783110455465(MiAaPQ)EBC4179784(EXLCZ)99371000000055330820190119d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe post-human society elemental contours of the aesthetic economy of the United States /Rajani Kanth ; managing editor, Maria Laura Parisi ; associate editor, Ewa Feder-SempachDe Gruyter2015Warsaw ;Berlin :De Gruyter Open,2015.1 online resource (100 pages)3-11-045530-7 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Foreword -- 2 Sex (and Sublimity) -- 3 Money (and Materiality) -- 4 Health (and Healing) -- 5 Politics (and Power) -- 6 Sport (and Shadowplay) -- 7 Race (and Reason) -- 8 Entertainment (and Edification) -- 9 Soul (and Spirituality) -- 10 AfterwordThe Post-Human Society is a rich, unique, path-breaking, belletristic and literary 'crie de coeur' work - a lyrical expose of all the internal infelicities (social, political, aesthetic) of the United States of America. In its vivid contrasting of the mores of competition, avarice, and greed to communitarian, co-respecting and co-operative values, it abounds with colorful, vibrant, breathtaking images and tropes. Utilizing a novel, First Person Narrative, the author Rajani Kanth offers a poignant critique of the rabid, runaway materialism that has been the bane of all modernist, European societies, to date. It is evocative in its approach to the fading genre of the iconic anthropology/sociology classics of the yesteryear. Ultimately, it is a critique of the ruling ethos of our times: Eurocentrism - i.e., selfish and acquisitive materialism, of which the contemporary USA is the trend-setter and the unchallenged gold standard. DR. RAJANI KANTH has an MA in Social Anthropology from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research, New York, USA. After serving as Economic Advisor to the UN in New York, he taught as University Professor, and is currently based at Harvard University.AestheticsEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistory21st centuryPhilosophical anthropologyUnited StatesCultureEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistory21st centuryValuesUnited StatesAmericansUnited StatesSocial life and customs21st centuryAlienation (Social psychology)United StatesHistoryUnited StatesCivilization21st centuryUnited StatesSocial life and customs21st centuryUnited StatesEconomic conditions21st centuryPost-Humanism, American culture, Materialism-Amorality.AestheticsEconomic aspectsHistoryPhilosophical anthropologyCultureEconomic aspectsHistoryValuesAmericansSocial life and customsAlienation (Social psychology)History.306.09730905Rajani Kannepalli Kanth231597Parisi Maria LauraFeder-Sempach EwaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996308764303316The post-human society2195660UNISA