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In this exploration of the aesthetics of modernity, Christine Buck-Glucksmann argues that in periods of perceived crisis a new form of rationality emerges to replace reasoned ways of thinking. She examines a number of key themes for modern social theory: the critique of instrumental rationality, the political crisis of loss of community and of innocence with the development of industrialization, as well as the impact of relativism on realist theories of knowledge. After examining the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy and nostalgia - the author goes on to explore the place of the feminine in discussions of modernity: how woman is used as one of the main sources of allegorical interpretations of modernity; and how the feminine comes to stand for and represent the miraculous, the utopian, the dangerous and the androgynous. In the final part, she identifies Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Baudelaire, Barthes and Lacan as constituting a baroque paradigm, and lays the foundation for a baroque reason. In her explanation of themes fundamental to our contemporary condition, she invites the reader beyond post-modernism to a realm of the Other.

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Author:   Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Volume:   v. 28
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780803989757

ISBN 10:   080398975
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Bryan S Turner PART ONE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MODERNITY: ANGELUS NOVUS Angelic Space Angelus Novus, an Overwhelming Picture Baroque Space Trauerspiel: Allegory as Origin Baudelairean Space A Modern Baroque The Space of Writing The Angel and the ′Scene′ of Writing: In the `Primeval Forest′ (Urwald) PART TWO: THE UTOPIA OF THE FEMININE: BENJAMIN′S TRAJECTORY 2 Catastrophist Utopia The Feminine as Allegory of Modernity Anthropological Utopia, or The ′Heroines′ of Modernity Transgressive Utopia ′Image Frontiers′ of Writing and History Appendix Viennese Figures of Otherness: Femininity and Jewishness PART THREE: BAROQUE REASON An Aesthetics of Otherness Salome or, The Baroque Scenography of Desire The Stage of the Modern and the Look of Medusa

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