Title:
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DIALECTIC OF ROMANTICISM
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By: |
Peter Murphy, David Roberts |
Format: |
Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
0826487866 |
ISBN 13: |
9780826487865 |
Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 2005 |
Series: |
Continuum Studies in Philosophy |
Pages: |
252 |
Synopsis: |
Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism (later historicism and post-modernism) as central to the development of European modernism alongside enlightenment, and, like the enlightenment, subject to its own dead-ends and fatalities. An external critique of modernism recovers concepts of civilization and civic aesthetics which are trans-historical -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. |
Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |