All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

基本信息

Format Paperback | 400 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 17.53mm | 280g

Publication date 29 Sep 1988

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Language English

Edition Statement Reissue

ISBN10 0140109625

ISBN13 9780140109627

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書籍簡介

本書用迷人的筆觸，以十九世紀的政治和社會革命為背景，透過哥德、馬克思、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人的主要作品，向我們展示了一幅充滿矛盾和曖昧不明的現代世界畫面。通過重新闡釋馬克思和深入思考羅伯特·摩西對現代城市生活的影響，作者標示出了二十世紀及其以後的發展軌跡。他得出的結論是，適應不斷的變化是可能的，建設真正現代社會的希望也正是在這裏。

"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." —Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.

The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old—all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.

From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.

目錄

All That Is Solid Melts into Air Preface to the Penguin Edition: The Broad and Open Way

Preface

Introduction: Modernity - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow I. Goethe's Faust: The Tragedy of Development

First Metamorphosis: The Dreamer

Second Metamorphosis: The Lover

Third Metamorphosis: The Developer

Epilogue: The Faustian and Pseudo-Faustian Age

II. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization

1. The Melting Vision and Its Dialectic

2. Innovative Self-Destruction

3. Nakedness: The Unaccommodated Man

4. The Metamorphosis of Values

5. The Loss of a Halo

Conclusion: Culture and the Contradictions of Capitalism

III. Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets

1. Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral Modernism

2. The Heroism of Modern Life

3. The Family of Eyes

4. The Mire of the Macadam

5. The Twentieth Century: The Halo and the Highway

IV. Petersbur: The Modernism of Underdevelopment

1. The Real and Unreal City

"Geometry Has Appeared": The City in the Swamps

Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman": The Clerk and the Tsar

Petersburg Under Nicholas I: Palace vs. Prospect

Gogol: The Real and Surreal Street

Words and Shoes: The Young Dostoevsky

2. The 1860s: The New Man in the Street

Chernyshevsky: The Street as Frontier

The Underground Man in the Street

Petersburg vs. Paris: Two Modes of Modernism in the Streets

The Political Prospect

Afterword: The Crystal Palce, Fact, and Symbol

3. The Twentieth Century: The City Rises, the City Fades

1905: More Light, More Shadows

Biely's Petersburg: The Shadow Passport

Mandelstam: The Blessed Word with No Meaning

Conclusion: The Petersburg Prospect

V. In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York

1. Robert Moses: The Expressway World

2. The 1960s: A Shout in the Street

3. The 1970s: Bringing It All Back Home

Notes

Index

作者簡介

馬歇爾·伯曼，任教於美國紐約市立大學，講授政治理論和城市生活研究。他的另一部主要著作是《本真性政治學：激進政治學與現代社會的出現》。

Marshall Berman was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a distinguished professor of political science at City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was the author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air and wrote the introduction to Penguin Books’ edition of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. He died in 2013.