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Cultural pessimism : narratives of decline in the postmodern world
Auteur
O. Bennett
Plaats van uitgave
Edinburgh
Uitgever
Edinburgh university press
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN
0-7486-0936-9
Annotatie
VII, 216 p. ; 24 cm. - Bibl.: p. 198-207. - Met reg.
Trefwoorden
cultuurpessimisme
,
cultuursociologie
,
moderne kunst
,
postmodernisme
Samenvatting
Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilisation or of humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. Cultural pessimism can by related to the cumulative effect of four key narratives: environmental decline, intellectual decline in science and art (modernism and postmodernism), moral decline and political decline. After a review of pessimism in other historical periods, the author attempts to answer a number of questions: how are the narratives constituted and what are the conditions to which they refer? To which cultures do the narratives relate? What values do they reflect?
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01-290
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