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We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been ra

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Modernity as Experience and Interpretation
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Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and

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Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of

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In Epistenology, Nicola Perullo argues that wine comes to life not in the abstract space of the professional tasting but

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Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as "postmodern dance," creating work that was key to unlocking the do

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Nicola Perullo sees food as constituting our first and most significant encounter with the earth. He draws on years of r

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Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment featu

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Turkey’s process of ‘modernization’ developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and le

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Contemporary politics is dominated by discussions of rights and liberties as the proper subjects about which citizens sh

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Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and

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Theologians and Old Testament scholars have been at odds with respect to the best interpretation of the imago Dei. Theol

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