Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982–) [EN, ES]
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The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old-all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.
First published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1982
This edition with a new preface published in Penguin Books, 1988
ISBN 0140109625, 9780140109627
383 pages
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (English, 1982/1988)
Todo lo solido se desvanece en el aire: La experiencia de la modernidad (Spanish, trans. Andrea Morales Vidal, 3rd ed., 1988/1989, added on 2014-6-2)
Veronika Fuechtner: Berlin Psychoanalytic. Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, art history, berlin, germany, history, modernism, psychoanalysis, psychology, weimar republic
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York—and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School—Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Döblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.
Publisher University of California Press, 2011
Volume 43 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
ISBN 0520258371, 9780520258372
248 pages
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Comment (0)Fredric Jameson: The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, capitalism, critical theory, cultural production, deterritorialization, marxism, modernism, philosophy, postmodern, postmodernism, theory
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subject in an age propelled by finance capital and endless spectacle. Surveying the debates that blazed up around his earlier essays, Jameson responds to critics and maps out the theoretical positions of postmodernism’s prominent friends and foes.
Publisher Verso, 1998
ISBN 1859841821, 9781859841822
Length 206 pages
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