Dialectic of romanticism : a critique of modernism / David Roberts and Peter Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Murphy, Peter, 1956- editor.

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy.

Continuum studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Three Modernisms; Part One: Mytho-Logics of Modernity; Part Two: Modernism and Civilization; Part Three: Modernity's Utopias; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

ISBN:

9786611295172

9781472545565

1472545567

9781281295170

1281295175

9781847142658

1847142656

OCLC:

290573905