Romantic Desire in Modern Art and Philosophy (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture) - Softcover

De Mul, Jos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791442187 ISBN 13: 9780791442180

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida; visual artists Magritte and Stella; poets George and Coleridge; and composers Schönberg, Cage, and Reich, among others, providing a sort of intellectual history of Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist "tempers."

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Review:

"Jos de Mul does a beautiful job of summarizing in compressed form some of the most vexed texts and ideas in contemporary theory; as a writer, he is a fine teacher. He is also an effective critic of the arts, especially painting and music. I learned and re-learned a great deal in reading this book. If a student were to ask 'What book can I read that not only explains what these people whose names I hear all the time actually say, but also demonstrates the significance of their ideas in practice?' I would be tempted to refer him or her to this book." -- Jean-Pierre Mileur, University of California, Riverside

"A fine, efficient introduction to a wealth of texts and demanding theoretical issues that few critics seem to know as well as de Mul." -- Thomas Pfau, author of Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling

Synopsis:

Mul (philosophy of man and culture, Erasmus U., The Netherlands) engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida, as well as visual artists such as Magritte and Stella, poets George and Coleridge, and composers Sch enberg, Cage, and Reich to discuss the relationship between (post)modern define

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0791442187
• ISBN 13: 9780791442180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342