Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre

Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

Übersetzer: Porter, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From reviews of the French edition: "Instead of exploiting the cliches of melancholy, of exhibitionism, and of the langorous ego, Robert Sayre and Michael Lowy follow the path of rebellion."--Roland Jaccard, "Le Monde ""This beautiful and generous book . . . is a marvelous utopian oasis shining on the horizon of the desert of banality and perplexity where we have been lost."--Isabel Maria Loureiro, "Em Tempo "(Brazil)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327844
• ISBN-10: 0822327848
• Artikelnr.: 21179596

Autorenporträt

Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre

Inhaltsangabe

1. Redefining Romanticism
> The Romantic Enigma, or “Tumultuous Colors”
The Concept of Romanticism
> The Romantic Critique of Modernity
> The Genesis of the Phenomenon
2. Romanticism: Political and Social Diversity
> Outline of a Typology
> Hypotheses for a Sociology of Romanticism
3. Excursus: Marxism and Romanticism
> Rosa Luxemburg
> Gyorgy Lukacs
4. Visages of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
> Romanticism and the French Revolution: The Young Coleridge
> Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution: The Social Critique of John
Ruskin
> 5. Visages of Romanticism in the Twentieth Century
> Romanticism and Religion: The Mystical Socialism of Charles Peguy
> Romanticism and Utopia: Ernst Bloch’s Daydream
> Romanticism as a Feminist Vision: The Quest of Christa Wolf
6. The Fire Is Still Burning: From Surrealism to the Present Day and
Beyond
> Surrealism
> May 1968
> Contemporary Mass Culture
> The New Social Movements
> The New Religious Movements
> The Contemporary Romantic Critique of Civilization
> What Future for Romanticism?
Notes
Works Cited
Index