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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

  • Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre
  • Edited by: Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish
  • Translated by: Catherine Porter
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2001
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A translation from the French of Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre’s attempt to unify discussion of the diverse manifestations of of Romanicism.

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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.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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  • 1. Redefining Romanticism
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    The Romantic Enigma, or ‘‘Tumultuous Colors’’

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    The Concept of Romanticism

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    The Romantic Critique of Modernity

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    The Genesis of the Phenomenon

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  • 2. Romanticism: Political and Social Diversity
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    Outline of a Typology

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    Hypotheses for a Sociology of Romanticism

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  • 3. Excursus: Marxism and Romanticism
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    Karl Marx

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    Rosa Luxemburg

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    György Lukács

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  • 4. Visages of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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    Romanticism and the French Revolution: The Young Coleridge

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

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  • 5. Visages of Romanticism in the Twentieth Century
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    Introduction

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    Romanticism and Religion: The Mystical Socialism of Charles Péguy

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    Romanticism and Utopia: Ernst Bloch’s Daydream

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    Romanticism as a Feminist Vision: The Quest of Christa Wolf

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

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    May 1968

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    Contemporary Mass Culture

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    The New Social Movements

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    The New Religious Movements

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    The Contemporary Romantic Critique of Civilization

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    What Future for Romanticism?

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    Notes

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    Works Cited

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    Index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381297
eBook ISBN: 9780822381297
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