Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity Contributor(s): Buci-Glucksmann, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 080398975X ISBN-13: 9780803989757 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 1994 Click for more in this series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
Dewey: 809.91 |
LCCN: 93086832 |
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
Physical Information: 192 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
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Publisher 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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