Anarchy & culture: the aesthetic politics of modernism

625 Pages·1997·1.43 MB·English

by  David Weir

Anarchy & Culture : The Aesthetic Politics
title: of Modernism Critical Perspectives On
Modern Culture
author: Weir, David.
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin: 1558490833
print isbn13: 9781558490833
ebook isbn13: 9780585084251
language: English
Politics and literature, Literature, Modern-
-19th century--History and criticism,
subject
Modernism (Literature) , Anarchism,
Literature and society.
publication date: 1997
lcc: PN51.W345 1997eb
ddc: 809/.933358
Politics and literature, Literature, Modern-
Politics and literature, Literature, Modern-
-19th century--History and criticism,
subject:
Modernism (Literature) , Anarchism,
Literature and society.
Page i
Anarchy & Culture
Page ii
A volume in the series
Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture
Edited by David Gross and William M. Johnston
Page iii
Anarchy & Culture
The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism
David Weir
University of Massachusetts Press
Amherst
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Copyright © 1997 by
David Weir
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LC 96-50314
ISBN 1-55849-083-3 (cloth); 084-1 (pbk.)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weir, David, 1947 Apr. 20
Anarchy and culture : the aesthetic politics of modernism / David Weir.
p. cm.(Critical perspectives on modern culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-55849-083-3 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 1-55849-084-
1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Politics and literature. 2. Literature, Modern19th centuryHistory and
criticism. 3. Modernism (Literature) 4. Anarchism. 5. Literature and society.
I. Title. II. Series.
PN51.W345 1997
809'.933358dc21 96-50314
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Page v
Alles funktioniert, nur der Mensch selber nicht mehr.
Hugo Ball, Die Flucht aus der Zeit
In memory of David Geoffrey Weir (19731991)
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 11
Definitions
The Ideologies of Anarchism
2 42
Reactions
Anarchism as Cultural Threat
3 87
Responses
Culture in the Anarchist Camp
4 116
Affinities
Anarchism and Cultural Promotion
5 158
Aesthetics
From Politics to Culture
6 201
Artists
Anarchism and Cultural Production
Afterword 259
Notes 269
Index 297