| Title : | All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Marshall Berman, Author | | Publisher: | New York : Simon and Schuster | | Publication Date: | 1982 | | Pagination: | 383 p. | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-86091-785-4 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references and index | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Civilization, Modern - 19th century
Civilization, Modern - 20th century
| | Class number: | 909.82 | | Abstract: | "All that is solid melts into air" - In this dazzling book, already widely praised in the USA, M. Berman undertakes an affirmative exploration of modern consciousness. The experiences of modernization- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world – and modernism in art , literature and architecture, have never been so well integrated in a single account . Berman’s assertion is that certain kinds of response are most appropriate to the permanent revolution of modern life. These are expressed most powerfully in the work of artists engaged with the instability and danger of a world where – in Marx’s famous phrase- ‘all that is solid melts into air.’ Goethe, Marx, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky and Mandelstam are among a myriad of writers invoked here. The centrality of urban experience in these twin processes of modernity ensures that cities themselves, their architects and destroyers, are major actors in the drama. The Paris of Baudelaire and Haussmann, the Petersburg of the Tsarist builders and Pushkin, the New York of devastated wastelands and creative artists-and of Berman himself: the stets themselves are registered in all their variety and chaos. M. Berman has made a fine contribution to the struggle ‘ to make ourselves at home in this world , even as the homes we have made , the modern street the modern spirit go on melting into air. | | Contents note: | Goethe’s Faust : the Tragedy of development; All that is solid melts into air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization; Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets; The Mire of the Macadam; The twentieth century: the halo an the highway; Petersburg : the modernism of underdevelopment; In the forest of symbols : some notes on modernism in new York; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13445 |
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