The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
The experience of modernisation - the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world - and modernism in art, literature and architecture are integrated in this account.
Ten miles away, at the Chernobyl Power Plant, something unimaginable has happened. Now their lives will change forever. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an electrifying novel about extraordinary lives in remarkable times.
This collection includes early essays from and on the radical ’60s, on New York City, on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk, and late essays on rock, hip hop, and gentrification.
Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.
This updated edition contains a new preface by Gary Younge and an introduction by Arun Kundnani.
In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed ...
... Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, and Nathan John Martin Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition Shay Loya Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance Jeffrey Swinkin Reviving Haydn: New ...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
... thank the following colleagues in the History Department at the University of California , Davis , for the helpful comments they made on earlier chapter drafts of this work : Ted Margadant , Bob Resch , Bill Hagen , and Roy Willis .
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism.