TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanth, Rajani
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110455311
ID  - OAPEN ID: 17965
KW  - American culture
KW  - Materialism-Amorality
KW  - Post-Humanism
L1  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455311
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56712
PB  - De Gruyter
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9783110455311
SN  - 9783110455465
TI  - The Post-Human Society. Elemental Contours of the Aesthetic Economy of the United Statesnull
ER  - 
