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Modernity and bourgeois life : society, politics, and culture in England, France and Germany since 1750
\"To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Modernity and Bourgeois Life
To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life.
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Intellectuals and the Republic
In its most general sense, the term “intellectual” might refer to any person who somehow dwells in the world of thought. During the 1890s, however, the word took on a particular meaning in France, referring to those thinkers, writers, artists, and teachers who come forward to play a role in public debate. The crystallization of this meaning took place in connection with the fierce conflicts that divided the country over the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason, and it led to a new prominence for those it designated. The defining moment came with Émile Zola’s famous 1898 article “J’accuse,”
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FORUM: THE IDEA OF THE SELF
I want to begin by thanking all the participants in today's roundtable for their comments and criticisms, and especially those who worked to conceive and arrange it. I am enormously flattered, as I think most people would be, to find myself the subject of sustained attention, however critical, over a whole afternoon, and especially from such thoughtful and insightful colleagues. Too bad for me that I did not have all these critiques before finishing the book, since it would surely have been better for them. It did profit from earlier comments by two of today's panel members, Peter Gordon and Anthony La Vopa; that they have both been willing to add to the discussion in the way they have now is a mark of intellectual and personal generosity that I greatly appreciate. Let me take up each of the four comments in turn.
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\Spiritualizing the Material\ and \Dematerializing the World\ in Modernist and Avant-Garde Practice: On the Wider Import of a Distinction Debora Silverman Develops in \Van Gogh and Gauguin\
This essay seeks to extend Debora Silverman's distinction between van Gogh's project of \"spiritualizing the material\" and Gauguin's related but opposed one of \"dematerializing the world\" to a wider range of modernist and avant garde projects. It employs this distinction in connection with Astradur Eysteinsson's analysis of the problems of using such terms as modernism, the avant-garde, and postmodernism in relation to realism and the various revolts against it that have taken place since the age of romanticism. Eysteinsson's general approach is followed, but also in part questioned and given a different direction through discussions of Duchamp, the surrealists, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud.
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\Spiritualizing the Material\ and \Dematerializing the World\ in Modernist and Avant-Garde Practice
This essay seeks to extend Debora Silverman's distinction between van Gogh's project of \"spiritualizing the material\" and Gauguin's related but opposed one of \"dematerializing the world\" to a wider range of modernist and avant-garde projects. It employs this distinction in connection with Astradur Eysteinsson's analysis of the problems of using such terms as modernism, the avant-garde, and postmodernism in relation to realism and the various revolts against it that have taken place since the age of romanticism. Eysteins-son's general approach is followed, but also in part questioned and given a different direction through discussions of Duchamp, the surrealists, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud.
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Introduction: ends and means
Modernity, money, networks of meansToward the middle of the nineteenth century many people agreed – not always happily – that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life, often called modern, in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes, and values all played a large role. How should we understand the relations between this European modernity and the bourgeois life that was so important an element in it? The question is a thorny one for many reasons, first because what people meant by the two terms is far from clear.“Modern” was an uncertain notion partly because it was not a new one, in use to describe present or recent times at least from the sixteenth century, and partly because the things to which it was applied differed from place to place, not least in the three large countries whose nineteenth-century transformations were most striking: England, France, and Germany. A similar uncertainty surrounded the range of phenomena designated by “bourgeois,” or rather by the French term and its German and English counterparts, bürgerlich and middle class. The social formations called up by the three were kindred but also distinct, and each term reflected a particular historical experience. A bourgeois was originally a town-dweller, especially one who possessed some special status or privileges; a Bürger was a townsperson too but the German word also meant a citizen, a difference that would be of some moment in the history of both; as for “middle class,” it was the least specific of the set, and unlike the others never designated a legally defined group. The shifting and uncertain meanings of both “modern” and “bourgeois,” combined with the generations of controversy that have accumulated around each, make attempting to start out with a precise definition of either a bootless task. But the links often posited between them suggest that we may be able to move toward a better understanding by considering them together.
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