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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828983503321

Autore

Roberts David <1937->

Titolo

Dialectic of romanticism : a critique of modernism / / David Roberts and Peter Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2004

ISBN

1-4725-4556-7

1-281-29517-5

9786611295172

1-84714-265-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Continuum studies in philosophy

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Three Modernisms; Part One: Mytho-Logics of Modernity; Part Two: Modernism and Civilization; Part Three: Modernity's Utopias; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism (later historicism and post-modernism) as central to the development of European modernism alongside enlightenment, and, like the enlightenment, subject to its own dead-ends and fatalities. An external critique of modernism recovers concepts of civilization and civic aesthetics which are trans-historical -simultaneously modern and classically inspired - and provides a counter both to romantic historicism and enlightened models of progress. Finally, a retrospective critique of modernism analyses what happens to modernism's romantic-archaic and technological-futurist visions when they are translated from Europe to America. Dialectic of Romanticism argues that out of the European dialectic of romanticism and enlightenment a new dialectic of modernity is emerging in the New World-one which points beyond modernism and postmodernism.