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A Cultural History of the Modern Age - Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of the Modern Age - Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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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 scientifi c 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 scientifi c outlook as their
foundation or regard it as their highest and fi nal 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. Th e term
"Classicism", is well understood. Under the term "Revolution"
Friedell includes all movements directed against what has been
dominant and traditional. Th e 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." Th e Enlightenment tendency might be seen as laying the
ground for an age of revolution. Th is second volume continues
Friedell's dramatic history of the driving forces of the twentieth
century.
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