# Curious Visions of Modernity

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- Book: [Curious Visions of Modernity](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-l-martin/curious-visions-of-modernity) ([Curious Visions of Modernity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-l-martin/curious-visions-of-modernity.md))
- Authors: [David L. Martin](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-l-martin)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6252-946-4
- Pages: 274
- Published: 2011-11-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems. Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader,...