Identité Anxieté Modernité - Hardcover

Jarret Schecter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907112545 ISBN 13: 9781907112546

Publisher: Trolley Books, 2017

Synopsis

Anxiety is perhaps the feeling that best describes our recent epoch of modernity. For photographer Jarret Schecter, Paris is the city which really encaspurates the feelings of our time. A city which, he also feels, seems to be suffering from a related crisis of identity. Unlike fear, which has a targeted object - a fear of heights or snakes for example - anxiety has no object. It is the fear of nothingness or no-thingness. Being thrown into the world, we experience anxiety firstly as a fear of our own no-thing-ness, and secondly, as a fear that upon death we will cease being. As a response to this corresponding anxiety, we can embrace freedom, despair, or tradition, a likely middle ground of trying to shore up identity with the bookends ritual and routine. However, with its shrinking, off-the-shelf traditions, modernity questions profane routine, sacred ritual/religion, and other distractions that are created and reinforced by culture. When the questioning in search of greater freedom is perceived as too intense by too many, a traditional reaction often ensues, and in some cases a frightfully fundamentalist one, as Paris knows all too well. Adventurously thrown into the future s unknown, while yearning, paradoxically, for the secure traditions of the past - through the lens of Paris, arguably one can get a predictive and perhaps ominous snapshot of the world s choice/fate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trolley Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1907112545
• ISBN 13: 9781907112546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96