Against Eurocentrism : a Transcendant Critique of Modernist Science, Society and Morals.
This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost--indeed a cost that neither the...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000ui 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | in00000207791 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr mn|---||||| | ||
| 008 | 091207s2006 nyu o 000 0 eng d | ||
| 005 | 20240702201938.9 | ||
| 019 | |a 437186811 |a 748527060 |a 815569335 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781403978790 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 1403978794 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 1281364215 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781281364210 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781403967374 | ||
| 020 | |a 1403967377 |q (Trade Cloth) | ||
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000048758450 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV044125429 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 396134416 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 449102351 | |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)476087641 |z (OCoLC)437186811 |z (OCoLC)748527060 |z (OCoLC)815569335 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocn476087641 | ||
| 040 | |a EBLCP |b eng |e pn |c EBLCP |d MERUC |d OCLCQ |d DEBSZ |d OCLCQ |d IDEBK |d COO |d OCLCQ |d ZCU |d OCLCQ |d IDB |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d ICG |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d DKC |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCL | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a HM449.R35 2004 |a HM449 .R35 2005eb | |
| 072 | 7 | |a JPA |2 bicssc | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 300.1 |a 300/.1 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Kanth, Rajani Kannepalli. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Against Eurocentrism : |b a Transcendant Critique of Modernist Science, Society and Morals. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (184 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preamble; I The Modernist Revolutions: The Ascent of Europe; II Against Modernism: [Therapeutics, Salves, and Antidotes to the Modernist Distemper]; Epilogue; Works Alluded To; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost--indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. We must, Kanth suggests, break with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, livi. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Postmodernism |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Eurocentrism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Liberty. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social history. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic history. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a freedom. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 7 | |a social history. |2 aat | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a Against eurocentrism (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGG9473cJCYHqDRgbdhvHC |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 1 | |z 9781403967374 | |
| 852 | |b E-Collections |h ProQuest | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=307575 |z Full text (MCPHS users only) |t 0 |
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL307575 | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection |b IDEB |n 136421 | ||
| 947 | |a FLO |x pq-ebc-base | ||
| 999 | f | f | |s e03ebdc1-ddf9-4b85-8ab3-cf9cc7d41b89 |i eff90938-f8a4-4f0a-8051-0d8757c5bbaa |t 0 |
| 952 | f | f | |a Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |b Online |c Online |d E-Collections |t 0 |e ProQuest |h Other scheme |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |t 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=307575 |y Full text (MCPHS users only) |
