Essential Readings on Cultural Modernity

Author: Habermas (Germany) et al. / Zhou Xian editor
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book focuses on cultural modernity, compiling classic essays by prominent Western thinkers since the 1980s, including Jürgen Habermas, Stuart Hall, Matei Calinescu, Antoine Compagnon, and others, on the topic of cultural modernity. They analyze important concepts that represent cultural modernity, ranging from nostalgia to everyday life, from reproduction to simulation, from rationalization to distance, from the art world and avant-garde to the end of art, forming a family of concepts related to cultural modernity. Their discussions broadly cover four key aspects of modernity: the concept and history of modernity, the paradoxical logic of modernity, the relationship between cultural modernity and aesthetic modernity, as well as the relationship between modernity and postmodernity. By outlining these four aspects, the book provides a detailed map depicting historical and real-world scenarios, serving as a guide for exploring cultural modernity.