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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Katunarić, Vjeran (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag, [2022]
Temas:
Arts and history.
Arts et histoire.
Arts and history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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