Overview

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.

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Author:   Dr Peter Murphy (La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia) ,  Professor David Roberts (Monash University, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780826487865

ISBN 10:   0826487866
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part One: Mytho-Logics of Modernity; 1. Introduction: The Retreat and Return of the Origin; 2. The Idea of Natural History; 3. A New Mythology; 4. The Disenchantment of Romantic Nature; 5. Original Imitation; 6. Metaphors of Creation; 7. Newly Invented Myths: Wagner; 8. Myth and Enlightenment: Nietzsche; 9. Mytho-Logics; Part Two: Modernism and Civilization; 10. Introduction: Artifice and History; 11. The Gate; 12. Truth In Building: Mies van der Rohe; 13. Architectures: Schinkel; 14. The House of the Gods: Heidegger; 15. The Iron Cage: Wittgenstein; 16. Greek Lessons: Mies van der Rohe in America; 17. Aedifictions; 18. Rhythms: Loos and Ives; Part Three: Modernity's Utopias; 19. Introduction: Aesthetic Modernism; 20. Modernism's Utopias; 21. A New Dialectic

Reviews

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mention 'very fascinating...philosophically vast and very wide-ranging in its implications.' Tim Cloudsley, The European Legacy, vol 12, No. 1, 2007 'The intellectual brilliance of Dialectic of Romanticism is evident on every page and it is refreshingly free of the defeatism evinced by many other works of cultural critique. It deserves to be widely read.' Vol 36, No 2, Pages 213-215, 2006 -- Professor Paul Bishop * Journal of European Studies *

A significant intellectual accomplishment Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council; A companion to the famous essay by Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment... I recommend the book not just on the grounds of its general conception but also for the refinement of the analyses and richness of the material it contains. Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mention 'very fascinating...philosophically vast and very wide-ranging in its implications.' Tim Cloudsley, The European Legacy, vol 12, No. 1, 2007 'The intellectual brilliance of Dialectic of Romanticism is evident on every page and it is refreshingly free of the defeatism evinced by many other works of cultural critique. It deserves to be widely read.'   Vol 36, No 2, Pages 213-215, 2006 -- Professor Paul Bishop * Journal of European Studies *

Author Information

Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His publications include The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004). David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism, (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).

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