The Philosophical Baroque - On Autopoietic Modernities

In The Philosophical Baroque, Erik Roraback brings a fresh, interdisciplinary eye to a selection of texts from across modernity's four hundred years--from the explosive energy of the early seventeenth century to the spectacle society of the present.

About the author

Erik S. Roraback teaches critical theory, international cinema, and U.S. literature at Charles University (est. 1348) and F.A.M.U. (The Academy of Performing Arts, Film and TV School) in Prague. He holds a degree from the University of Oxford (D.Phil.) and is the author of The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power: James, Balzac and Critical Theory (2007).

Product details

• Authors: Erik S Roraback, Erik S. Roraback
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9789004323278
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32327-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Literary Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works