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100 1 _aKanth, Rajani,
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245 1 4 _aThe Post-Human Society :
_bElemental Contours of the Aesthetic Economy of the United States /
_cRajani Kanth.
264 1 _aWarsaw ;
_aBerlin :
_bDe Gruyter Open Poland,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (112 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tPreface --
_t1 Foreword --
_t2 Sex (and Sublimity) --
_t3 Money (and Materiality) --
_t4 Health (and Healing) --
_t5 Politics (and Power) --
_t6 Sport (and Shadowplay) --
_t7 Race (and Reason) --
_t8 Entertainment (and Edification) --
_t9 Soul (and Spirituality) --
_t10 Afterword
506 0 _funrestricted online access
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520 _aThe 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
540 _aThis eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
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546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Feb 2021)
650 0 _aAesthetics
_xEconomic aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aAlienation (Social psychology)
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAmericans
_zUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_y21st century.
650 0 _aCulture
_xEconomic aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aEconomic history and conditions.
650 0 _aPhilosophical anthropology
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSociology (General).
650 0 _aValues
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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653 _aPost-Humanism, American culture, Materialism-Amorality.
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