Baroque Reason - The Aesthetics of Modernity

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity through the works of a number of writers and philosophers. She considers how figures such 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Bryan S Turner PART ONE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MODERNITY: ANGELUS NOVUS Angelic Space Angelus Novus , an Overwhelming Picture Baroque Space Trauerspiel: Allegory as Origin Baudelairean Space A Modern Baroque The Space of Writing The Angel and the ¿Scene¿ of Writing: In the `Primeval Forest¿ (U rwald ) PART TWO: THE UTOPIA OF THE FEMININE: BENJAMIN¿S TRAJECTORY 2 Catastrophist Utopia The Feminine as Allegory of Modernity Anthropological Utopia, or The ¿Heroines¿ of Modernity Transgressive Utopia ¿Image Frontiers¿ of Writing and History Appendix Viennese Figures of Otherness: Femininity and Jewishness PART THREE: BAROQUE REASON An Aesthetics of Otherness Salome or, The Baroque Scenography of Desire The Stage of the Modern and the Look of Medusa ...

Product details

• Authors: Christine Buci-Glucksman, Christine Buci-Glucksmann
• Assisted by: Patrick Camiller (Translation)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780803989757
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8975-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Har; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Har; Published in Association with
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories