Dialectic of Romanticism : A Critique of Modernism.
Title:
Dialectic of Romanticism : A Critique of Modernism.
Author:
Murphy, Peter.
ISBN:
9781847142658
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Series:
Continuum Studies in Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Three Modernisms -- Part One: Mytho-Logics of Modernity -- Introduction: The Retreat and Return of the Origin -- 1 The Idea of Natural History -- 2 A New Mythology -- 3 The Disenchantment of Romantic Nature -- 4 Original Imitation -- 5 Metaphors of Creation -- 6 Newly Invented Myths: Wagner -- 7 Myth and Enlightenment: Nietzsche -- 8 Mytho-Logics -- Part Two: Modernism and Civilization -- Introduction: Artifice and History -- 9 The Gate -- 10 Civilization and Aestheticism: Schinkel -- 11 Truth in Building: Mies van der Rohe -- 12 The House of the Gods: Heidegger -- 13 The Iron Cage: Wittenstein -- 14 Greek Lessons: Mies van der Rohe in America -- Part Three: Modernity's Utopias -- Introduction: Modernity's Utopias -- 15 Modernity's Architectonic Utopia -- 16 Modernity's Aesthetic Utopias -- 17 Utopia in the New World -- 18 Conclusion: Modernity's Modernisms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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