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John Jervis
A cultural studies scholar whose books explore modernity, otherness, and the uneasy feelings that often accompany modern life. His work brings big ideas in Western culture into clear, thoughtful focus.
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About the author
John Jervis is a Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Publisher biographies describe him as a scholar working across aesthetics, film theory, modernism, political theory and philosophy, and the politics of art.
He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization and Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness. He also co-edited Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties, continuing his interest in how modern culture shapes identity, feeling, and experience.
Across these books, his writing centers on the cultural patterns and tensions of the modern West. Rather than treating theory as something distant, his work is known for connecting large historical and philosophical questions to the textures of everyday cultural life.