Exploring the Modern

John Jervis has taught extensively in the areas of Sociology, Social Anthropology, and Cultural Studies, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction.Part I: The Modern Self.1. The Theatrical Self: social drama and personal identity.2. Subjects and Citizens: the politics of everyday life.3. Street People: the city as experience, dream and nightmare.4. The Consolations of Consumerism.5.'We Are Born Naked - Everything Else is Drag': clothing the body, fashioning the self.6. The Seduction of Romance: fictions of love, narratives of selfhood.Part II: The Modern Age.7. Sacred, Secular, Sublime: modernity performs the death of God.8. Machines and Skyscrapers: technology as experience, hope and fear.9. From Enlightenment to Holocaust: modernity and the end of morality.10. Modernism, Art and Culture.11. The Image, the Spectral, and the Spectacle: technologies of the visual.12. Postmodern Times?.Key Terms.Biographical Notes.Guide to Further Reading.