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A cultural theorist whose work explores modernity, emotion, aesthetics, and the uneasy edges of contemporary life. His books connect philosophy, politics, and the arts in ways that invite curious readers to look again at the modern world.
John Jervis is a Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Information from Bloomsbury describes him as a scholar working across aesthetics, film theory, modernism, political theory, and the arts.
He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000). Bloomsbury also lists him as the co-editor of Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties (2008), as well as the author of Sensational Subjects and Sympathetic Sentiments.
His writing brings together big cultural questions with close attention to feeling, spectacle, and the experience of modern life. Readers interested in cultural studies, philosophy, and the arts will likely find his work thoughtful, wide-ranging, and rewarding.