The End of Modernity: What the Financial and Environmental Crisis Is Really Telling Us

by Stuart Sim

Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis - what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable need for technologically driven economic progress is unsustainable, and potentially destructive of the planet and its socio-economic systems. The new landscape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748640355
• ISBN13: 9780748640355
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.5"