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Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging

By Leonidas Donskis

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
0230108792, 9780230108790
LCC
JN96.A58 D66 2011
Google Books ID
KtRPewAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL25045854M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
458 kB (468586 bytes)
Pages
231\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

A critical inquiry into postmodern anxiety, fear, indifference, obsessive attention seeking, and the disappearance of privacy and of public space, the book offers penetrating insights into what its author terms the troubled identity, and also into the cultural canon, the weakened sense of belonging, and the inflation of key political concepts. Blending political theory and philosophy of culture, the book exposes the tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in postmodern politics and culture. A polemical book of an Eastern European, it raises the pivotal issues of present Europe’s cultural identity and political existence.

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