{"product_id":"five-faces-of-modernity-9780822307679","title":"Five Faces of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition        xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments        xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction        3\u003cbr\u003e The Idea of Modernity        \u003cbr\u003e Modern Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Ancient Giants        13\u003cbr\u003e The Problem of Time: Three Eras of Western History        19\u003cbr\u003e It Is We Who Are the Ancients        23\u003cbr\u003e Comparing the Moderns to the Ancients        26\u003cbr\u003e From Modern to Gothic to Romantic to Modern        35\u003cbr\u003e The Two Modernities        41\u003cbr\u003e Baudelaire and the Paradoxes of Aesthetic Modernity        46\u003cbr\u003e Modernity, the Death of God, and Utopia        58\u003cbr\u003e Literary and Other Modernisms        68\u003cbr\u003e Comparing the Moderns to the Contemporaries        86\u003cbr\u003e The Idea of the Avant-Garde        \u003cbr\u003e From Modernity to the Avant-Garde        95\u003cbr\u003e The \"Avant-Garde\" Metaphor in the Renaissance: A Rhetorical Figure        97\u003cbr\u003e The Romantic \"Avant-Garde\": From Politics to the Politics of Culture        100\u003cbr\u003e Some Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writers and the Avant-Garde        108\u003cbr\u003e Two Avant-Gardes: Attractions and Repulsions        112\u003cbr\u003e Avant-Garde and Aesthetic Extremism        116\u003cbr\u003e The Crisis of Avant-Garde's Concept in the 1960s        120\u003cbr\u003e Avant-Garde, Dehumanization, and the End of Ideology        125\u003cbr\u003e Avant-Garde and Postmodernism        132\u003cbr\u003e Intellectualism, Anarchism, and Stasis        144\u003cbr\u003e The Idea of Decadence        \u003cbr\u003e Versions of Decadence        151\u003cbr\u003e From \"Decadence\" to \"Style of Decadence\"        157\u003cbr\u003e The Decadent Euphoria        171\u003cbr\u003e Nietzsche on \"Decadence\" and \"Modernity\"        178\u003cbr\u003e The Concept of Decadence in Marxist Criticism        195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIl Decadentismo\u003c\/i\u003e        211\u003cbr\u003e Kitsch        \u003cbr\u003e Kitsch and Modernity        225\u003cbr\u003e Kitsch, Camp, and High Art        229\u003cbr\u003e Etymology, Contexts of Usage, and the \"Law of Aesthetic Inadequacy\"        232\u003cbr\u003e Kitsch and Romanticism        237\u003cbr\u003e Bad Taste, Ideology, and Hedonism        240\u003cbr\u003e Some Stylistic Considerations        249\u003cbr\u003e Kitsch and Cultural Industrialization        255\u003cbr\u003e The \"Kitsch-Man\"        259\u003cbr\u003e On Postmodernism (1986)        \u003cbr\u003e A New Face of Modernity        265\u003cbr\u003e Epistemology and Hermeneutics: From Modernity to Postmodernity        269\u003cbr\u003e The Silence of the Avant-Garde        275\u003cbr\u003e The Novelty of the Past: The View from Architecture        279\u003cbr\u003e Critiques of Postmodernism        288\u003cbr\u003e Literary Postmodernism: The Shaping of a Corpus        296\u003cbr\u003e Postmodernist Devices and Their Significance        302\u003cbr\u003e Notes        313\u003cbr\u003e Selected Critical Bibliography        365\u003cbr\u003e Index        387","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406010523991,"sku":"9780822307679","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822307679.jpg?v=1730494231","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/five-faces-of-modernity-9780822307679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}