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Dialectic of Romanticism

By Peter Murphy , David Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2005
ISBN
0826487866, 9780826487865
Open Library ID
OL8169390M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16163429 bytes)
Series
Continuum Studies In Philosophy
Pages
256\251
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the critique of modernism treats romanticism as central to the development of European modernism alongside the enlightenment and similarly subject to its own dead-ends and fatalities. The book also recovers concepts of civilization and civic aesthetics which are simultaneously modern and classically inspired - and provides a counter both to romantic historicism and enlightened models of progress. Finally, a retrospective critique of modernism analyses what happens to modernism's romantic-archaic and technological-futurist visions when they are translated from Europe to America. Dialectic of Romanticism argues that out of the European dialectic of romanticism and enlightenment a new dialectic of modernity is emerging in the New World - one which points beyond modernism and postmodernism.

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