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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Marshall Berman
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Description for All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Paperback. Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, this title dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 110 x 32. Weight in Grams: 496.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of people. Berman delves into the aesthetic and intellectual controversies of art, literature, and architecture: from the writing of Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky to the Paris of Baudelaire and Haussmann, the Petersburg of the Tsarist builders and Pushkin, and the New York of devastated wastelands and creative artists.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of people. Berman delves into the aesthetic and intellectual controversies of art, literature, and architecture: from the writing of Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky to the Paris of Baudelaire and Haussmann, the Petersburg of the Tsarist builders and Pushkin, and the New York of devastated wastelands and creative artists.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844676446
SKU
V9781844676446
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About Marshall Berman
Marshall Berman was Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CCNY Graduate Center, where he taught Political Theory and Urban Studies and is the author of The Politics of Authenticity, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, and On the Town.
Reviews for All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
A bubbling cauldron of ideas.
New Statesman
A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling.
John Leonard
New York Times
Berman lights up every text he examines.
Newsweek
The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts.
Mica Nava ... Read more
New Statesman
A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling.
John Leonard
New York Times
Berman lights up every text he examines.
Newsweek
The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts.
Mica Nava ... Read more