A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. In this text Berman brings together various discussions of work on Marx and Marxism.
A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. In this tex...
The experience of modernisation - the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world - and modernism in art, literature and architecture are integrated in this account.
The experience of modernisation - the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world - and modernism in art, literature and ar...
Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world, ' Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his life. In this remarkable book, Berman takes us on a thrilling illustrated tour of Times Square, revealing a landscape both mythic and real. Interleafing his own recollections with social commentary, he reveals how movies, graphic arts, literature, popular music, television, and, of course, the Broadway theater have reflected Times Square's...
Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world, ' Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracit...
In this acclaimed exploration of the search for authentic individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity of a self that could organize the individual s energy and direct it toward his own happiness articulated eighteenth-century man s deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in...
In this acclaimed exploration of the search for authentic individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of wh...
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But like many New York intellectuals, the essay was his characteristic form, accommodating his multifarious interests and expressing his protean, searching exuberant mind. This collection includes early essays from and on the radical '60s, on...
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists an...