"Five Faces of Modernity" is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: "modernity," "avant-garde," "decadence," "kitsch," and "postmodernism." The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is like...(展开全部)

"Five Faces of Modernity" is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: "modernity," "avant-garde," "decadence," "kitsch," and "postmodernism." The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is like...(展开全部)

马泰·卡林内斯库（1934—2009） 生于罗马尼亚，1973年起任职于美国印第安纳大学，担任比较文学系教授，后成为该校荣休教授。研究领域包括现代主义、后现代主义，以及文学、宗教、政治之间的关系，著有《文学与政治》（1982）、《现代主义与意识形态》（1986）等，与佛克马合编有《后现代主义探索》（1988）。

This work is a philosophical intervention into contemporary cultural theory challenges the terms of its understanding of time and history. If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmo...(展开全部)

Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition.

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation...(展开全部)

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation...(展开全部)

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation...(展开全部)