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Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

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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

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: March 31, 1994

ISBN: 0803989768

ISBN 13: 9780803989764

Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: March 31, 1994

ISBN: 0803989768

ISBN 13: 9780803989764

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