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Reluctant Modernity
Ales Debeljak
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Description for Reluctant Modernity
Paperback. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
In this book, Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions. Inspired by the melancholy critical theory of Adorno and Benjamin, and drawing on Weber, Debeljak shows that with the dawning of modernity, art was made autonomous. Art production was effectively emancipated from the exigencies of everyday life and its guiding ideal of purposive rationality. The Renaissance brought on the first stage in a long, gradual withdrawal of art from the hitherto dominant mythological, religious, and aristocratic legitimization. Yet it was not ... Read more
In this book, Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions. Inspired by the melancholy critical theory of Adorno and Benjamin, and drawing on Weber, Debeljak shows that with the dawning of modernity, art was made autonomous. Art production was effectively emancipated from the exigencies of everyday life and its guiding ideal of purposive rationality. The Renaissance brought on the first stage in a long, gradual withdrawal of art from the hitherto dominant mythological, religious, and aristocratic legitimization. Yet it was not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Postmodern Social Futures
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847685837
SKU
V9780847685837
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About Ales Debeljak
Aleš Debeljak, a leading Central European poet and cultural critic, teaches cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books in English include Anxious Moments (1994) and Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia (1994).
Reviews for Reluctant Modernity
A major contribution to the critical analysis of the autonomy of art in contemporary capitalism. Ales Debeljak, following in the tradition of Adorno and Habermas, provides a penetrating and comprehensive inquiry in the contradictory character of art in modern society.
Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge At last, a book which punctures the bolder claims of postmodernism, while retaining ... Read more
Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge At last, a book which punctures the bolder claims of postmodernism, while retaining ... Read more