All That Is Solid Melts into Air The Experience of Modernity - Softcover

Berman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860917851 ISBN 13: 9780860917854

Publisher: Verso, 1983

Synopsis

All That Is Sold Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition contains an updated preface addressing the critical role the onset of modernism played in popular democratic upheavals in the late 1920s.

About this title

Review:

The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts. --Mica Nava, Times Higher Education Supplement

A bubbling cauldron of ideas. --New Statesman

A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling. --John Leonard, New York Times

About the Author:

Marshall Berman teaches at CUNY in New York, is on the editorial board of Dissent and contributes regularly to The Nation. He is the author of Adventures in Marxism, also from Verso.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0860917851
• ISBN 13: 9780860917854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384