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Hurling the little streets against the great: Marshall Berman's perennial modernism
Marshall Berman's great work, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, is a compelling, indeed visionary, response to capitalism's assaults on humanism and to the failure of traditional left-wing models of revolution. Via literary and social analysis stretching over two centuries, he undermined capitalism's claim to have arrived at a just order–indeed, any order at all. Modernity, in his thinking, was harnessed to the history of capitalism, infused with disorder and bursting with both creative and destructive elements. Modernity was a perpetual crisis and modernism was both a diagnosis and a perpetual call to overcome it. In his evocation as the street as the centre of modern life, he aimed to reconcile two poles in his thinking: modernity as a collective product and individuality as a modern achievement. He struggled, not always successfully, to find in the culture of modern cities–in particular, New York–a reservoir of creative responses to the unending crisis.
Hurling the little streets against the great: Marshall Berman's perennial modernism
Marshall Berman's great work, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, is a compelling, indeed visionary, response to capitalism's assaults on humanism and to the failure of traditional left-wing models of revolution. Via literary and social analysis stretching over two centuries, he undermined capitalism's claim to have arrived at a just order–indeed, any order at all. Modernity, in his thinking, was harnessed to the history of capitalism, infused with disorder and bursting with both creative and destructive elements. Modernity was a perpetual crisis and modernism was both a diagnosis and a perpetual call to overcome it. In his evocation as the street as the centre of modern life, he aimed to reconcile two poles in his thinking: modernity as a collective product and individuality as a modern achievement. He struggled, not always successfully, to find in the culture of modern cities–in particular, New York–a reservoir of creative responses to the unending crisis.
Hurling the little streets against the great: Marshall Berman's perennial modernism
Gitlin, Todd (author)
City ; 19 ; 104-108
2015-01-02
5 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
capitalism , Marxism , modernism , modernity , modernization , streets
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