Jerrold Seigel: Modernity and Bourgeois Life
Modernity and Bourgeois Life
Buch
- Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany Since 1750
- Cambridge University Press, 04/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781107666788
- Bestellnummer: 1715858
- Umfang: 638 Seiten
- Sonstiges: w. 10 b/w illus.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2012
- Gewicht: 980 g
- Maße: 228 x 158 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.4.2012
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity. What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.Beschreibung
To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life.Inhaltsangabe
Preface; 1. Introduction: ends and means; Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England; 6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy; 7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany; Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital; 9. Men and women; 10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people; Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces; 13. Bourgeois and others; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde; 15. Conclusion.Klappentext
What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.Biografie
Jerrold Seigel is William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at New York University. His previous books include Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (1986) and The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture (1995).![Jerrold Seigel: Modernity and Bourgeois Life, Buch](https://media1.jpc.de/image/w468/front/0/9781107666788.jpg)
Jerrold Seigel
Modernity and Bourgeois Life
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