Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Truth Goodman |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2020-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501342975 |
Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno's Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno's Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Truth Goodman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781501342981 |
"Explores and illuminates Adorno's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism"--
Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey R. Di Leo |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2022-11-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501367455 |
Slavoj Žižek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies-e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics-and pre-modern ones-e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritique-Žižek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene. This volume takes up the challenges laid out by Žižek's iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. Žižek's multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought. Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of Žižek's writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies.
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey R. Di Leo |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501367420 |
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his work after his death in 1980. This later work has attracted attention, for example, in conjunction with notions of the neutral, gay writing, and critiques of everyday life. The third part is devoted to some of the critical vocabulary of Barthes in both the work he published during his lifetime, and that which was published posthumously.
Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Jaffe |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2023-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501386360 |
The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, shared experience, reception, and communication. Working within an expanded concept of modernism, Flusser presciently noted the power inherent in algorithmic information apparatuses to reshape our fundamental conceptions of culture and history. In an increasingly technological world, Flusser's form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human” to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines. The contributors to Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Flusser's thought as they provide a general analysis of his work, engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary clarifying the playful terminology used by Flusser, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.
Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Michel Rabaté |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2019-05-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501331884 |
This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not modern; neither is it postmodern nor simply modernist. They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a modern notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy.
Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism
Title | Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Steven |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-01-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501351133 |
A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.