Explores the conflicts of modernity, but less as a group of ideas than as a related set of cultural and ideological formations. The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class and sexuality have, through their challenges to an apparently less empirical, rational, and universalising past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed.
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Explores the conflicts of modernity, but less as a group of ideas than as a related set of cultural and ideological formations. The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class and sexuality have, through their challenges to an apparently less empirical, rational, and universalising past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed.
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Fine in NF jacket. Textured black paper over boards with gilt titles to spine in blue and green jacket with Goya illustration to front, 8vo. 361pp. Index, endnotes with essays. Fine/Near Fine. Book has mild spine slant with no effect on tight, strong binding. Jacket has 1/4" tear (internally tape-reinforced) with associated surface loss to lower spine end. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart. Neither ex-lib nor remainder.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 9780838754603.