| Description |
1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Desensitized genius: The actuality of Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Introduction: Monsters, science, and art -- Excursus: The questionable role of God -- The archaic challenge of the aesthetic Enlightenment: The Sirens' song -- Opposing the Romantic worldview: The military Enlightenment -- The sensuous against the unregardful Enlightenment -- The hermeneutics of self-restraint -- or, What the Sirens actually said to Odysseus -- The peak of the antipoetic world: Nazism |
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Conclusion: Genial stupidity and the quest for an aesthetic Enlightenment -- References -- Webography -- Chapter 2 A counter-stream toward a future: The whispering Muses -- Singers and whisperers -- Ten propositions -- References -- Chapter 3 Past and present, from which the future follows: On artistic cognition -- Introduction: Arrival at the unknown -- The social mechanism -- The angel of history -- Just an artist? -- Art as a signifier of the lifeworld-rebirth -- The monotheistic coup and linear time-the triumph of death? -- Going backwards or forward toward cosmic peace? -- References |
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Chapter 4 The European Renaissance and the anticipation of capitalism -- The birth of a new alliance -- Last Supper with comrades -- Who will play Jesus? -- Jesus' performance of the New Testament script -- Farewell to idealism? -- References -- Webography -- Chapter 5 Baroque and Enlightenment: The architecture of the Prince -- An introduction to Versailles -- The ground floor next to emptiness-relief of the center of the world -- The magnificent façade for the primal urge -- Exclusive gardens -- Narcissistic mirrors |
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Art and architecture and celebration of the highest power: A valid distinction? -- Time at an eternal standstill -- Versailles versus the triple helix -- References -- Webography -- Chapter 6 Romanticism: Anticipating revolution and nationalism -- Introduction: The effervescence of social emotions -- The "elective affinity" -- The choice of partners and morbid curiosity -- Being here and being there at once: A mission possible -- Freedom for the people led by the "eternal woman" -- The Sphinx who sang about the future-Verdi's Nabucco -- Verdi and the Risorgimento |
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In the beginning was national thought-Va, Pensiero -- Singing about concordant rather than discordant nations -- References -- Chapter 7 Realism and dystopia: The tour de force of capitalism -- Introduction: Fictive justice and real injustice -- The enchanted misanthrope in A Christmas Carol -- "There is no job for you": Zola's Germinal -- The tour de force of capitalism: London's Iron Heel -- References -- Chapter 8 Modernism: Anticipating liberalism, fascism, and socialism -- Introduction: Temporal utopias -- The enthusiasm that swallows contradictions: Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| Notes |
All times gathered in a common anthem to the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2022) |
| Subject |
Arts and history.
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Arts and history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783838276977 |
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3838276973 |
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