Facing Modernity Frank R. Freemon In an engaging style

In an engaging style

Immensely influential in literary history for his development of blank verse and the Petrarchan sonnet form in English

The volume's savvy and sassy overtones are bound to leave an impression

In a critical exploration of contemporary disability theory

The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis

Facing Modernity Frank R. Freemon In an engaging styleThe author of this work contends that an important responsibility of social enquiry is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen with modernity. The book provides a wide ranging and critical discussion of the respects in which issues of reflexivity, ethics and moral responsibility inform social and political thought. Smart explores the "ambivalent fruits" of social analysis exemplified by the works of