{"product_id":"all-that-is-solid-melts-into-airisbn-9780140109627","title":"All That Is Solid Melts into Air","description":"\"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable.\" —Mervyn Jones, \u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThe political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old—all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities.  In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience.  He concludes that adaptation to continual flux \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll That Is Solid Melts into AirPreface to the Penguin Edition: The Broad and Open Way\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Modernity  - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow\u003cb\u003eI. Goethe's \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e: The Tragedy of Development\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First Metamorphosis: The Dreamer\u003cbr\u003e Second Metamorphosis: The Lover\u003cbr\u003e Third Metamorphosis: The Developer\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Faustian and Pseudo-Faustian Age\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Marx, Modernism and Modernization \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Melting Vision and Its Dialectic\u003cbr\u003e 2. Innovative Self-Destruction\u003cbr\u003e 3. Nakedness: The Unaccommodated Man\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Metamorphosis of Values\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Loss of a Halo\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Culture and the Contradictions of Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral Modernism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Heroism of Modern Life\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Family of Eyes\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Mire of the Macadam\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Twentieth Century: The Halo and the Highway\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Petersbur: The Modernism of Underdevelopment \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e1. The Real and Unreal City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Geometry Has Appeared\": The City in the Swamps\u003cbr\u003e Pushkin's \"Bronze Horseman\": The Clerk and the Tsar\u003cbr\u003e Petersburg Under Nicholas I: Palace vs. Prospect\u003cbr\u003e Gogol: The Real and Surreal Street\u003cbr\u003e Words and Shoes: The Young Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e2. The 1860s: The New Man in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chernyshevsky: The Street as Frontier\u003cbr\u003e The Underground Man in the Street\u003cbr\u003e Petersburg vs. Paris: Two Modes of Modernism in the Streets\u003cbr\u003e The Political Prospect\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Crystal Palce, Fact, and Symbol\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e3. The Twentieth Century: The City Rises, the City Fades\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1905: More Light, More Shadows\u003cbr\u003e Biely's \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e: The Shadow Passport\u003cbr\u003e Mandelstam: The Blessed Word with No Meaning\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Petersburg Prospect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Robert Moses: The Expressway World\u003cbr\u003e 2. The 1960s: A Shout in the Street\u003cbr\u003e 3. The 1970s: Bringing It All Back Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarshall Berman\u003c\/b\u003e was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a distinguished professor of political science at City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Solid Melts into Air\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote the introduction to Penguin Books’ edition of Karl Marx’s \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2013.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303010488549,"sku":"NP9780140109627","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140109627.jpg?v=1730752733","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-airisbn-9780140109627","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}