TY - BOOK AU - Sim,Stuart TI - The End of Modernity: What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us SN - 9780748642410 AV - HN18.3 -- .S56 2010eb U1 - 306.09051 PY - 2010/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Civilization, Modern -- 21st century KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I The End of Modernity? The Cultural Dimension -- 1 Introduction: The End of Modernity -- 2 Modernity: Promise and Reality -- 3 Beyond Postmodernity -- Part II The End of Modernity? The Economic Dimension -- 4 Marx was Right, But . . . -- 5 Diagnosing the Market: Fundamentalism as Cure, Fundamentalism as Disease -- 6 Forget Friedman -- Part III Beyond Modernity -- 7 Learning from the Arts: Life After Modernism -- 8 Politics After Modernity -- 9 Conclusion: A Post- Progress World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - How the current paradigm of technologically driven economic progress could destroy the planet and its socio-economic systems UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1962038 ER -