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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
OUR PRICE: $256.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1994
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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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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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