Löwy / Michael Lowy / Sayre Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8129-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A translation from the French of Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre’s attempt to unify discussion of the diverse manifestations of of Romanicism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Löwy, Michael

Michael Lowy, Lowy

Sayre, Robert

Jameson, Fredric

Fish, Stanley

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Redefining Romanticism

The Romantic Enigma, or “Tumultuous Colors”

The Concept of Romanticism

The Romantic Critique of Modernity

The Genesis of the Phenomenon

2. Romanticism: Political and Social Diversity

Outline of a Typology

Hypotheses for a Sociology of Romanticism

3. Excursus: Marxism and Romanticism

Rosa Luxemburg

Gyorgy Lukacs

4. Visages of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Romanticism and the French Revolution: The Young Coleridge

Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution: The Social Critique of John Ruskin

5. Visages of Romanticism in the Twentieth Century

Romanticism and Religion: The Mystical Socialism of Charles Peguy

Romanticism and Utopia: Ernst Bloch’s Daydream

Romanticism as a Feminist Vision: The Quest of Christa Wolf

6. The Fire Is Still Burning: From Surrealism to the Present Day and

Beyond

Surrealism

May 1968

Contemporary Mass Culture

The New Social Movements

The New Religious Movements

The Contemporary Romantic Critique of Civilization

What Future for Romanticism?

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Löwy is Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.Robert Sayre is Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.