Main entry:

Berman, Marshall, 1940-2013.

Title & Author:

All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity / Marshall Berman.

Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1988.

Description:

383 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1982.
"Penguin books."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index.
Introduction: Modernity -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- Goethe's Faust: The Tragedy of Development -- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization -- Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets -- Petersburg: The Modernism of Underdevelopment -- In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York.

Summary:

"The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old - all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism. From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society."--Back cover.

ISBN:

0140109625 (pbk.)
9780140109627 (pbk.)

Subject:

Civilization, Modern 20th century.
Civilization, Modern 19th century.
Civilisation 20e siècle.
Civilisation 19e siècle.
Civilization, Modern.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Faust (Goethe)
Stadscultuur.
Modern civilization.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 42217
Call No.: ID:89-B2195
Status: Available