All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity - Hardcover

Berman, Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067124602X ISBN 13: 9780671246020

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1981

Synopsis

Analyzing literature, architecture, and patterns of living, the author traces the persistent meanings of modernity, seeing in its chief concerns and expressions a will to change accompanied by a terror of life falling apart

About this title

About the Author:

Marshall Berman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He writes frequently for The Nation and The Village Voice, and serves on the editorial board of Dissent. His books include Adventures in Marxism, The Politics of Authenticity and, most recently, On the Town, all from Verso.

Review:

Praise for All That Is Solid Melts Into Air The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts.A" Mica Nava, Times Higher Education Supplement A bubbling cauldron of ideas.A" New Statesman A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling.A" John Leonard, New York Times Berman lights up every text he examines.A" Newsweek

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 067124602X
• ISBN 13: 9780671246020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 383