TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanth,Rajani
TI  - The Post-Human Society: Elemental Contours of the Aesthetic Economy of the United States 
SN  - 9783110455311
AV  - E169.12 .R27 2015
U1  - 330 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Warsaw, Berlin : 
PB  - De Gruyter Open Poland, 
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Alienation (Social psychology)
KW  - Americans
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Culture
KW  - Economic history and conditions
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Sociology (General)
KW  - Values
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Post-Humanism, American culture, Materialism-Amorality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1 Foreword --; 2 Sex (and Sublimity) --; 3 Money (and Materiality) --; 4 Health (and Healing) --; 5 Politics (and Power) --; 6 Sport (and Shadowplay) --; 7 Race (and Reason) --; 8 Entertainment (and Edification) --; 9 Soul (and Spirituality) --; 10 Afterword
N2  - The Post-Human Society is a rich, unique, path-breaking, belletristic and literary 'crie de coeur' work - a lyrical expose of all the internal infelicities (social, political, aesthetic) of the United States of America. In its vivid contrasting of the mores of competition, avarice, and greed to communitarian, co-respecting and co-operative values, it abounds with colorful, vibrant, breathtaking images and tropes. Utilizing a novel, First Person Narrative, the author Rajani Kanth offers a poignant critique of the rabid, runaway materialism that has been the bane of all modernist, European societies, to date. It is evocative in its approach to the fading genre of the iconic anthropology/sociology classics of the yesteryear. Ultimately, it is a critique of the ruling ethos of our times: Eurocentrism - i.e., selfish and acquisitive materialism, of which the contemporary USA is the trend-setter and the unchallenged gold standard. DR. RAJANI KANTH has an MA in Social Anthropology from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research, New York, USA. After serving as Economic Advisor to the UN in New York, he taught as University Professor, and is currently based at Harvard University
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455311
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