Two Cheers for Modernity
Michael McKeon’s great The Secret History of Domesticity has at its core a powerful, well-articulated view of the nature of modernity. This paper engages with that view. The argument of this essay is simple: McKeon does not give sufficient attention to alternative views of modernity - or, if you lik...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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History compass
Year: 2012, Volume: 10, Issue: 9, Pages: 708-713 |
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| Summary: | Michael McKeon’s great The Secret History of Domesticity has at its core a powerful, well-articulated view of the nature of modernity. This paper engages with that view. The argument of this essay is simple: McKeon does not give sufficient attention to alternative views of modernity - or, if you like, to tensions with modernity. This matters: his view of modernity is slightly too optimistic - as indeed a closer reading of Smith and Hume proposed here makes clear |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00845.x |
