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| ISBN: | 0585092796
9780585092799
0791439534
0791439542
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.
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| Other form: | Print version: Racevskis, Karlis. Modernity's pretenses. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998 0791439534
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