Modernism in the Streets
A Life and Times in Essays
Published on 25. April 2017
400 pages
978-1-78478-499-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 New York City, on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk, and late essays on rock, hip hop, and gentrification. Concluding with his last essay, completed just before his death in 2013, this book is Berman's intellectual autobiography, tracing his career as a thinker through the way he read the 'signs in the street'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-1-78478-499-7 (9781784784997)
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Marshall Berman was Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CCNY Graduate Center, where he taught Political Theory and Urban Studies and is the author of The Politics of Authenticity, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, and On the Town.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Marxism with Soul: On the Life and Times of Marshall Berman
- Part I: Origin Stories
- Caught Up in the Mix: Some Adventures in Marxism
- Part II: Radical Times
- The Politics of Authenticity
- Alienation, Community, Freedom
- Notes Toward a New Society
- Unchained Melody
- Part III: Living for the City
- Take It to the Streets: Conflict and Community in Public Space
- Buildings Are Judgment, or "What Man Can Build"
- Views from the Burning Bridge
- New York Calling
- Part IV: Jay Talking
- The Dancer and the Dance
- Still Waiting at the Station
- Angel in the City
- Cosmic Chutzpah
- Part V: The Bright Book of Life
- The Jewish Patient
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- In the Night Kitchen
- The Bright Book of Life
- Part VI: Signs in the Street
- Signs in the Street: A Response to Perry Anderson
- Underground Man
- Broadway, Love, and Theft: Al Jolson's Jazz Singer
- "Justice / Just Us": Rap And Social Justice In America
- Part VII: The Romance of Public Space
- Introduction
- The Romance of Public Space
- The Bible and Public Space
- Part VIII: From the Ruins
- Emerging from the Ruins
- Notes
- Index
