Modernity Reimagined

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents in Brief -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface: Origins and the Analysis of Modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Part One History of Modern Social Forms -- 1 Modern Selves and Fashion -- Medieval Identity -- The Black Death -- Modern Subjectivity -- Burgundian Fashion and Moral Worth -- Italian Fashion and the Distant Self -- Spanish Fashion and the Christian Warrior -- Dutch Fashion and Consumer Culture -- French Fashion and the Theater of Power -- Fashionable Dress and Modern Selves -- 2 Communities of Strangers and Infrastructure -- Print Infrastructure and the Wars of Religion -- The Parisian Water Supply -- 3 Cultural Imaginaries and Modern States -- Immersive Theater and Political Spectacle -- Learning by Doing -- The Power of the Artisans -- The Modern State -- 4 Discursive Modernity and Global Industrial Capitalism -- Philosophical Modernities -- Modern Nation States -- Modern Cities -- The Experimental Self -- Part Two Genealogies of Modern Social Types -- 5 Geopolitics and Discourses of Race -- Monogenesis and Moral Differences (Cell A) -- Monogenesis and Degree of Civilization (Cell B) -- Polygenesis and Difference of Temperament (Cell C) -- Polygenesis and Racial Supremacy (Cell D) -- The Legacy of Racial Imaginaries -- 6 Property, Labor, and Discourses of Gender -- Gendered Differences -- Natural Man and Artificial Woman -- Gender, Property, and Labor -- Gender Culture and Industrial Labor -- 7 The Ascent of Man and Discourses of Childhood -- Modern Versions of Childhood -- Developmental Childhood -- Animals and Monsters -- The Problem of Modern Selves -- Part Three Popular Tools of Modern Life -- 8 Digital Games and Navigating Modernity -- Games as Pedagogical Tools -- Serious Games of Military Simulation.

Mazes and Serious Games of Life -- Digital Maze Games and Modern Subjectivity -- Mage and Minions -- Spider-Man 2 (3D) -- Monument Valley -- Games of Modern Life -- 9 Philosophical Media and Critiques of Modernity -- No Country for Old Men -- Einstein's Wife -- Where the Heart Is -- Independence Day -- Thought Experiments and Philosophical Machines -- 10 Escape Routes and Restlessness -- Aesthetic Escape Routes -- Political Escape Routes -- Escaping Material Modernity -- The Restless Self and Grief -- Appendix: Teaching Resources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments for Figures -- Index.