The French Cult of the Modern

dc.contributor.authorGavin Murray-Milleren_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-27T15:39:54Z
dc.date.available2014-10-27T15:39:54Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-??zh_TW
dc.description.abstractReflections on French modernity and modernity in general have customarily been associated with the notion of bourgeois social primacy, outlining a scheme in which industrialization, capitalism, and forms of middle-class sociability and culture have typically served as criteria for mapping the contours of Western modernity. This article seeks to reassess this conventional perspective by examining how the idiom of modernity played a central role in reformulating elite social identity in the midst of the rising democratic political culture taking shape in France during the middle of the nineteenth century. As elites came to terms with mass democracy and colonialism, concepts of modernity and “modern society” became hallmarks of a new public discourse with both inclusive and exclusionary implications, enshrining modernity as a key organizing principle in both the articulation of new social hierarchies and power relationships. This style of representing encouraged a shift toward an identity regime grounded in conceptions of time and temporality which not only broke with established tenets of “bourgeois” liberalism but equally sketched the outline of a new social order in which modernity became the legitimacy for power and domination in a country ostensibly committed to the principles of social equality and pluralism.en_US
dc.identifier7C76BBB1-DCDB-8A86-E40B-A1F0C726C44Bzh_TW
dc.identifier.urihttp://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/handle/20.500.12235/23414
dc.language英文zh_TW
dc.publisher英語學系zh_tw
dc.publisherDepartment of English, NTNUen_US
dc.relation37(2),29-49zh_TW
dc.relation.ispartof同心圓:文學與文化研究zh_tw
dc.subject.otherFrench modernityen_US
dc.subject.otherFrench colonialismen_US
dc.subject.otherpost-Revolutionary European cultureen_US
dc.subject.otherbourgeois social identityen_US
dc.subject.othermodernizationen_US
dc.titleThe French Cult of the Modernzh-tw

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