| Dialectic of Romanticism Contributor(s): Murphy, Peter (Author), Roberts, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826487866 ISBN-13: 9780826487865 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 700 |
| Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.18" W x 9.16" (0.87 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. > |
Contributor Bio(s): Roberts, David: - David Roberts (b. 1943) is an accomplished mountaineer with a PhD in English from the University of Denver. He is the author of several books, including The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative. |