Modernity Theory Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexi
Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as ‘modern’ (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in
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Modernity Theory
John Jervis
Modernity Theory Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking
John Jervis University of Kent Canterbury, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-49675-1 ISBN 978-1-137-49676-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49676-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018959240 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design: Fatima Jamadar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature America, Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.
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Contents
1 Introduction: Why Modernity Theory? 1 A Note on Sources and Footnotes 8 2 Modernity and Modernism: Key Themes 11 Foundations of Modern Experience 12 The Art of the Self (Modern and Modernist) 19 Between Kant and Romanticism 24 Fashioning the Modern 27 3 Reflexivity and the Project of Modernity 33 Reflexivity: Aspects and Contexts 34 Reflexivity and Paradox 40 The Modern Project 42 Transparency 48 4 Experience and Representation 53 Topographies of Modern Experience (Imagining Depth) 55 Painting Modern Experience (The Hand, the Eye, and Colour) 60 Experience as Allegory 65 5 The Mediated World 73 Mediated Sensation: The Vicarious and the Transgressive 76 The Medium (From Art to Technology) 79 The Mediated Image and the Mass (From Early Photo to Selfie) 84 vii
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6 Modernity and Civilization 93 The Aesthetic Encounter: Sensibility as Feeling and Form 95 Civilization: Conflicting Models 103 Civilization: Sublimity and Abjection 110 7 The Nature of It All (Modernist Ontology) 117 Boundaries an
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