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 Appendix. PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)