The Enlightenment Against The Baroque

Author : Rémy G Saisselin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520414341

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The Enlightenment Against the Baroque by Rémy G Saisselin Pdf

How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy G. Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to describe the development of our modern taste, the successor of the more spiritual and grand baroque goût. His analysis both illuminates and distinguishes between eighteenth-century and modern varieties of conspicuous consumption. This persuasive discourse depicts the rise of luxe as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury, and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation. Saisselin provides an original and lucid picture of the first phases in the emergence of a specifically bourgeois taste. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Author : Egon Friedell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535755

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A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell Pdf

This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi c mind: in nature-research, language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry, and religion. All systems of thought produced in this century, either begin with the scientifi c outlook as their foundation or regard it as their highest and fi nal goal. Friedell claims three main streams pervade the eighteenth century: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Classicism. In ordinary use, by "Enlightenment" we mean an extreme rationalistic tendency of which preliminary stages were noted in the seventeenth century. Th e term "Classicism", is well understood. Under the term "Revolution" Friedell includes all movements directed against what has been dominant and traditional. Th e aims of such movements were remodeling the state and society, banning all esthetic canons, and dethronement of reason by sentiment, all in the name of the "Return to Nature." Th e Enlightenment tendency might be seen as laying the ground for an age of revolution. Th is second volume continues Friedell's dramatic history of the driving forces of the twentieth century.

Author : Gloria K. Fiero
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 069724220X

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The Age of the Baroque and the European Enlightenment by Gloria K. Fiero Pdf

Author : Michel Delon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135959982

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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Michel Delon Pdf

This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Author : Mary Lindemann,Jared Poley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785335891

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Money in the German-speaking Lands by Mary Lindemann,Jared Poley Pdf

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money’s vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350090934

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age by Anonim Pdf

During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and “affections” continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious, political, social, economic, and moral imperatives. The emotional cultures described in these essays enable some comparative discussion about the history of emotions, and particularly the causes and consequences of emotional change in the larger cultural contexts of the Baroque and Enlightenment. Emotions research has enabled a rethinking of dominant narratives of the period-of histories of revolution, state-building, the rise of the public sphere, religious and scientific transformation, and more. As a new and dynamic field, the essays here are just the beginning of a much bigger history of emotions.

Author : L. J. Jordanova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521882422

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The Look of the Past by L. J. Jordanova Pdf

Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence.

Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021488

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The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment by Daniel Brewer Pdf

Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441973870

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.

Author : Jennifer D. Milam
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810879522

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Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art by Jennifer D. Milam Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art.

Author : Nadir Lahiji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474228534

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Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy by Nadir Lahiji Pdf

Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event. Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0787656976

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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras: The age of Baroque and Enlightenment (1600-1800) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bo Göranzon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447130017

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Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On Practical Philosophy by Bo Göranzon Pdf

Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On practical Philosophy explores the problems of developing a perspective on technology and society, on the limits of enlightment, the relationship between cultural criticism and the epistemology of practical knowledge, tacit knowledge and a non-elitist conception of expertise, the role of the arts as a basis for reflection, and many other relevant topics. The 1993 international conference in Stockholm was - among other things - part of a process of building a curriculum for an international graduate programme in the area of culture, skill and technology, a process that has been under way since 1989.

Author : Monika Kaup
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813933146

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Neobaroque in the Americas by Monika Kaup Pdf

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the baroque to a specific period, class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. Reflecting on the rich, nonlinear genealogy of baroque expression, Neobaroque in the Americas envisions the baroque as an anti-proprietary expression that brings together seemingly disparate writers and artists and contributes to the new studies in global modernity.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190606954

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Bach & God by Michael Marissen Pdf

Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.