Five Faces of Modernity

Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

Bibliographic Data

ID20021076
AuthorsMatei Calinescu (corresponding author)
Year1977
Pages395
Publication date1977-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byFive Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism, B Mch, 1988
VenueFive faces of modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJapan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology (PUBLISHER • JP)
OpenAlexW2124104992
Open LibraryOL2738136M
ISBN9780822307679
LanguageEN
Citations received87

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 likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours-is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Decadence · Epistemology · Ideology · Kitsch · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · European Cultural and National Identity · Law · Philosophy · 111/.85 · Ästhetik · Avant-garde (Aesthetics) · Avant-garde (Esthétique) · Bh301.m54 c34 1987 · Cultuur · Décadence dans la littérature · Decadence in literature · Decadencia en la literatura · Decadentie · Geschichte (1830-1975) · Kultur · Kunst · Literary collections · Moderne · Modernism (Aesthetics) · Modernism (art) · Modernisme (cultuur) · Modernisme (Esthétique) · Moderniteit

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