Posted: February 7th, 2015

What is 'modernity'?

What is ‘modernity’?

Order Description

Conceptual analysis: addressing the question ‘what is modernity?’ by means of an interpretation of a freely chosen text, image, advert, song / piece of music, film, TV

programme, object, buildings.

Reading resources:
• Lefebvre, Henri (1995), Introduction to Modernity, London, Verso. Prelude 11 ‘What is Modernity?’ pp. 168-238

• Baudelaire, Charles (2010), The Painter of Modern Life. Harmondsworth, Penguin Press ‘Great Ideas’ series.
• Lyon, David (1994), Postmodernity. Milton Keynes, Open UP. Esp. Ch 3 pp. 19-36.
• Dodd, Nigel (1999) Social Theory and Modernity Cambridge, Polity Press. Introduction and Part 1 pp. 1-55.
• Dant, Tim (2003), Critical Social Theory London, Sage esp. Ch 1 pp. 1-17.
• McLennan, Gregor (1992), ‘The Enlightenment Project Revisited’ , pp. 327-377 in Stuart Hall and Tony McGrew (eds), Modernity and Its Futures, Milton Keynes: Open

University Press.
• Hall, Stuart and Gieben, Bram (eds), (1992), Formations of Modernity, Milton Keynes. Open University. Esp. ch. 1.
• Berman, Marshall (1984) All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. London, Verso.
• Marx, Karl (1848): ‘The Communist Manifesto’ in McLellan, David ed 1977 Karl Marx Selected Writings Oxford UP pp. 221-247.
• Kumar, Krishan (1978): Prophecy and Progess: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society Penguin, Harmondsworth. esp ch 2 pp. 45-63.
• Lyotard, Jean-Francois (1984): The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester, Manchester UP. See the (challenging!) Foreword by Fredric Jameson and the

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