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The end of modernity : what the financial and environmental crisis is really telling us / Stuart Sim.

By: Sim, Stuart.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010Description: xii, 220 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780748640355 (hbk.); 0748640355 (hbk.).Other title: What the financial and environmental crisis is really telling us.Subject(s): Civilization, Modern -- 21st century | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects
Contents:
Introduction: the end of modernity -- Modernity: promise and reality -- Beyond postmodernity -- Marx was right, but... -- Diagnosing the market: fundamentalism as cure, fundamentalism as disease -- Forget Friedman -- Learning from the arts: life after modernism -- Politics after modernity -- Conclusion: a post-progress world.
Summary: "Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis -- what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable need for technologically driven economic progress is unsustainable, and potentially destructive of the planet and its socio-economic systems. The new landscape this creates - socially, politically, economically, intellectually - is explored through an interdisciplinary approach, providing a wide-ranging assessment of the collapse of modernity and the challenges it poses us. Sim calls for a radical alteration in our world view and for purposeful changes both to our economic and intellectual life: we need to jettison the free market, rein in conspicuous consumption, reinvigorate public service, and develop talents other than the entrepreneurial if we are to reconstruct our society satisfactorily." -- Boo jacket.
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Includes bibliography (p. 205-215) and index.

Introduction: the end of modernity -- Modernity: promise and reality -- Beyond postmodernity -- Marx was right, but... -- Diagnosing the market: fundamentalism as cure, fundamentalism as disease -- Forget Friedman -- Learning from the arts: life after modernism -- Politics after modernity -- Conclusion: a post-progress world.

"Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis -- what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable need for technologically driven economic progress is unsustainable, and potentially destructive of the planet and its socio-economic systems. The new landscape this creates - socially, politically, economically, intellectually - is explored through an interdisciplinary approach, providing a wide-ranging assessment of the collapse of modernity and the challenges it poses us. Sim calls for a radical alteration in our world view and for purposeful changes both to our economic and intellectual life: we need to jettison the free market, rein in conspicuous consumption, reinvigorate public service, and develop talents other than the entrepreneurial if we are to reconstruct our society satisfactorily." -- Boo jacket.

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