Format:
179 S. : Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0-8039-8976-8
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society
Uniform Title:
La raison baroque
Content:
This important book explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of writers and philosophers, and with particular reference to the social and aesthetic philosophy of Walter Benjamin. Christine Buci-Glucksmann addresses modernity through the notion of the other, and shows how the feminine is used as one of the main sources of allegorical interpretation, standing for the miraculous, the utopian, the dangerous and the androgynous
Content:
The author also 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
Content:
In her exegesis of these fundamental themes Buci-Glucksmann proposes an epistemology beyond postmodernism
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Modernität
;
Ästhetik
;
1892-1940 Benjamin, Walter
;
Ästhetik
;
Ästhetik
;
Moderne
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