Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness

John Jervis

Wiley, Aug 25, 1999 - Social Science - 248 pages

This book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of 'other' forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos.

About the author

John Jervis has taught extensively in the areas of Sociology, Social Anthropology, and Cultural Studies, at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His previous book, Exploring the Modern (1999) is also published by Blackwell Publishers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness; Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness, John Jervis
• Author: John Jervis
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1999
• ISBN: 0631211101, 9780631211105
• Length: 248 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General