{"product_id":"baroque-reason-christine-buci-glucksmann-9780803989764","title":"Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity","description":"In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and aesthetic philosophy of Walter Benjamin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author examines Baudelaire′s haunting image of the city and its profound effect on conceptions of modernity. She goes on to consider how such influential figures as Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Barthes and Lacan constitute a baroque paradigm, united by their allegorical style, their conflation of aesthetics with ethics and their subject matter - death, catastrophe, sexuality, myth, the female. In her exegesis of these fundamental themes Buci-Glucksmann proposes an epistemology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Buci-Glucksmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803989768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803989764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 5.40w x 0.62d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christine Buci-Glucksmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46232975671551,"sku":"9780803989764","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf2d70c7-813a-4c48-9274-13b7ad519fc9.jpg?v=1728991698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baroque-reason-christine-buci-glucksmann-9780803989764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}