Curious Visions of Modernity
Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality—a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlight…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-52946-4
- EAN: 9780262529464
- Produktnummer: 36086878
- Verlag: Mit Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 404 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 404
Über den Autor
David L. Martin is Managing Editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies and teaches in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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