The Decline of Modernism - Couverture rigide

Burger, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745606229 ISBN 13 : 9780745606224

Editeur : Polity Press, 1992

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century. In analysing this relationship, Burger draws on a wide range of sociological and literary–critical sources – Weber, Benjamin, Foucault, Diderot and Sade among others. He argues that in questioning the formal relationship between art and life which had dominated the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the avant gardist movements of the early twentieth century brought about the crisis of postmodernism.

Burger charts the establishment of literary and artistic institutions since the Enlightenment and their apparent autonomy of the prevailing political systems. However, he argues that the discovery of the obverse of Enlightenment, namely barbarism, revealed the interdependence of art and society and set the scene for the avant–gardist protest against aesthetics formalism.

Revue de presse :

′In Burger′s substantial and thought–provoking essay Naturalism, Aestheticism and Subjectivity, the movement towards nineteenth–century naturalism is part of literature′s existence as an Enlightenment medium of moral–political debate.′ MLR

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0745606229
• ISBN 13: 9780745606224
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200