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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Verso Books, 2010.Description: 391 pages : 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781844676446
Other title:
  • All that is solid melts into air
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.82 21
Contents:
Introduction: Modernity -- Yesterday, today and tomorrow -- 1. Goethe’s Faust: the tragedy of development -- 2. All that is solid melts into air: Marx, modernism and modernization -- 3. Baudelaire: modernism in the streets -- 4. Petersburg: the modernism of underdevelopment -- 5. In the forest of symbols: some notes on modernism in New York.
Summary: Marshall Berman's "All that is solid melts into air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks 909.82 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010033663
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First published in the United States of America by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1982 -- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Modernity -- Yesterday, today and tomorrow -- 1. Goethe’s Faust: the tragedy of development -- 2. All that is solid melts into air: Marx, modernism and modernization -- 3. Baudelaire: modernism in the streets -- 4. Petersburg: the modernism of underdevelopment -- 5. In the forest of symbols: some notes on modernism in New York.

Marshall Berman's "All that is solid melts into air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.

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