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Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity

By Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications
Year
1994
ISBN
080398975X, 9780803989757
LCC
PN56.M54 B813 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2096487 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society
Pages
192\184
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Культурология;История культуры;История европейской

Description

In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and aesthetic philosophy of Walter Benjamin. The author examines Baudelaire's haunting image of the city and its profound effect on conceptions of modernity. She goes on to consider how such influential figures as Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Barthes and Lacan constitute a baroque paradigm, united by their allegorical style, their conflation of aesthetics with ethics and their subject matter - death, catastrophe, sexuality, myth, the female. In her exegesis of these fundamental themes Buci-Glucksmann proposes an epistemology

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