A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment (Volume 2) Egon Friedell, Allan Janik (Introduction)
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412810248
DDC: 509
Edition: Paperback; 2009-02-28
Summary:
This is the second volume of Friedell’s monumental A Cultural History
of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture
between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his
masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the
victory of the scientific mind: in nature-research,
language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry,
and religion. All systems of thought produced in this century, either
begin with the scientific outlook as their foundation or regard it as
their highest and final goal. Friedell claims three main streams
pervade the eighteenth century: Enlightenment, Revolution, and
Classicism. In ordinary use, by "Enlightenment" we mean an extreme
rationalistic tendency of which preliminary stages were noted in the
seventeenth century. The term "Classicism", is well understood. Under
the term "Revolution" Friedell includes all movements directed
against what has been dominant and traditional. The aims of such
movements were remodeling the state and society, banning all esthetic
canons, and dethronement of reason by sentiment, all in the name of
the "Return to Nature." The Enlightenment tendency might be seen as
laying the ground for an age of revolution. This second volume
continues Friedell’s dramatic history of the driving forces of the
twentieth century.
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