Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity

By Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity through the works of a number of writers and philosophers.She considers how figures such 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803989768
• ISBN13: 9780803989764
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"