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Batteries of Life on the History of Things & their Perceptions in Modernity: Volume 4 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) - Hardcover
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Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a battery. Now German art historian Christoph Asendorf explores this transformation of human sense perception in the industrial age and contributes to a new understanding of European culture and modernity.
Drawing from literature, painting, architecture, film, philosophy, anthropology, and popular culture, Asendorf offers rich analyses of works by Manet, Baudelaire, Monet, Zola, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Duchamp. These close readings are combined with a montage of key cultural images and events ranging from Paxton's Crystal Palace to the introduction of electricity. The result is a striking account of the emergence of consumer culture within the developing commodity economy of modern Europe.
Certain to challenge the mono-disciplinary perspectives of many specialists, this book will interest historians of art, culture, literature, science, and technology.
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About the Author
Christoph Asendorf teaches in the Art History Department at the University of Wuppertal in Germany. He is author of Ströme und Strahlen (Streams and Currents) (1989). Don Reneau is a translator and writer who lives in Berkeley, California.
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"As a cultural history of post-Enlightenment Europe, this is an important book. As a teacher of culture courses, I know there is little available that is even close in terms of excitement, breadth, and innovation."—Russell A. Berman, Stanford University
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"As a cultural history of post-Enlightenment Europe, this is an important book. As a teacher of culture courses, I know there is little available that is even close in terms of excitement, breadth, and innovation."Russell A. Berman, Stanford University
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Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity (Volume 4) (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
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Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity / Christoph Asendorf ; translated by Don Reneau
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vi, 248 pp.; illustrations ; 26 cm. Contents; 1. The Body, the Economy, and the World of Things. 1. L'homme machine. 2. Vathek, or Disintegration. 3. German Romanticism: Money and Happiness, or the Eroticism of the World of Things -- 2. From the "Ego Crystal Forest" To the Crystal Palace -- 3. Economy and Metamorphosis. Excursus: Grandville, or Laputa in the July Monarchy -- 4. On the Physiognomy of the World of the Commodity and the Machine. 1. The Myth of the Living Machine. 2. The Commodity Spectacle circa 1850. 3. The Collector and His Treasure: "An Entirely Furtive Private Relationship" -- 5. Circulation as a Way of Life -- 6. Impressionism. 1. Manet. 2. Degas. 3. Monet. 4. On the Historical Site of the Impressionist Way of Seeing -- 7. Commodities and the Erotic. 1. Paradise in the Department Store. 2. The Eroticism of Machines -- 8. The Decay of the World of Things and Its Restoration in Art -- 9. The Interieur, Or Things in the Everyday Life of the Bourgeoisie. 1. Materials: Artificial Nature and Synthetics. 2. The Production of the "Faculty for Delusion" 3. The Role of Things -- 10. The Production of "Homogeneous and Empty Time" -- 11. Nerves and Electricity. 1. On the Romantic Image of Electricity. 2. Polarity and Sexual Attraction. 3. The Image of Electricity between Hegel's Phenomenology and Kleist: The "Liberation of Predicates from Subjects" and Electrical Epiphany. 4. Andersen: Electricity on the "Romantic-Technological Knife-Edge". 5. Siemens, Edison, and the History of Mentalities of Electric Light, Ornament and Psychic Streams. 6. "Telegram Style of the Soul" and Cosmic Energies. 7. Nerves: Mach, Bahr, and Freud. 8. Strindberg and Electro-Hysteria -- 12. The Constitution of Perception from 1900 to 1914. 1. Mach, Simmel, and Hofmannsthal. 2. Silence. 3. Ornament. 4. The Life of Things: Rilke's Thing-Poems, Animism, and Silent Film. 5. Animated Thought. 6. Abstraction and Empathy. 7. The Lord Chandos Letter -- Epilogue: The Emancipation of Material from the Subject. Subjects; 1800-1899. Arts, Modern 19th century. Aesthetics. Social history. Material culture. Modernism. Visual perception. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 387154
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