The Modernist Enterprise
French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940 (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14528607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara B Pritchard (0000-0002-3170-7020, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 421-423 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0081 |
| OpenAlex | W1988325083 |
| Language | EN |
Although The Modernist Enterprise can be appreciated by scholars in a variety of fields, it is situated squarely within French history and cultural studies: Marjorie Beale writes that this is "an empirical study of the cultural practice of modernity" in Paris between 1900 and 1940 (p. 4). She examines the ways in which French elites began to "rethink the relationship between culture, commerce, and government," arguing that they hoped to discover "some ideologically neutral technique for resolving the social conflicts and political crises that had plagued the Third Republic" (p. 71). At the same time, elites were "deeply suspicious" of the emergent industrial world [End Page 421] because it might threaten "the wholesale dismantling of time-honored French cultural traditions" (p. 71)
Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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