The New Social Movements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Redefining Romanticism
4. The Romantic Enigma, or ‘‘Tumultuous Colors’’ 1
5. The Concept of Romanticism 14
6. The Romantic Critique of Modernity 29
7. The Genesis of the Phenomenon 43
8. 2. Romanticism: Political and Social Diversity
9. Outline of a Typology 57
10. Hypotheses for a Sociology of Romanticism 83
11. 3. Excursus: Marxism and Romanticism
12. Karl Marx 88
13. Rosa Luxemburg 99
14. György Lukács 104
15. 4. Visages of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
16. Romanticism and the French Revolution: The Young Coleridge 117
17. Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution: The Social Critique of John Ruskin 127
18. 5. Visages of Romanticism in the Twentieth Century
19. Introduction 147
20. Romanticism and Religion: The Mystical Socialism of Charles Péguy 156
21. Romanticism and Utopia: Ernst Bloch’s Daydream 169
22. Romanticism as a Feminist Vision: The Quest of Christa Wolf 187
23. 6. The Fire Is Still Burning: From Surrealism to the Present Day and Beyond
24. Surrealism 214
25. May 1968 219
26. Contemporary Mass Culture 225
27. The New Social Movements 229
28. The New Religious Movements 230
29. The Contemporary Romantic Critique of Civilization 232
30. What Future for Romanticism? 249
31. Notes 257
32. Works Cited 291
33. Index 311