Jerrold Seigel

Modernity and Bourgeois Life

Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany Since 1750

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Produktbeschreibung

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 638
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 158mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666788
• ISBN-10: 1107666783
• Artikelnr.: 34540778

Autorenporträt

Jerrold Seigel is Kenan Professor of History Emeritus, New York University. His previous publications include The Idea of the Self (2005), Bohemian Paris (1986) and Marx's Fate (1978).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction: ends and means; Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England; 6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy; 7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany; Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital; 9. Men and women; 10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people; Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces; 13. Bourgeois and others; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde; 15. Conclusion.

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Preface
1. Introduction: ends and means
Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England
3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France
4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany
5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England
6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy
7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany
Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital
9. Men and women
10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality
11. Jews as bourgeois and network people
Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces
13. Bourgeois and others
14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde
15. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'This is an impressive work of synthesis which tracks more than a century of bourgeois life in Europe. And the bourgeois world Seigel conjures is a complex one, born of ever more tightly woven patterns of communication and exchange, never fixed but changing over time, and always an unstable mix of the structured and the fluid. Rarely has the subject been treated with such sweep and sympathy.' Philip Nord, Princeton University