Description: Baroque Reason Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Aesthetics of Modernity Author(s): Christine Buci-Glucksmann Format: Paperback Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 9780803989764, 978-0803989764 Synopsis 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 beyond postmodernism. This extraordinary exposition of a baroque reason for modernity sheds new light on a number of themes central to modern social theory.
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Book Title: Baroque Reason
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Baroque Reason: the Aesthetics of Modernity
Publisher: SAGE Publications LTD
Publication Year: 1994
Subject: Sociology
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 250 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Paperback
