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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 Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Copyright © 1997 by David Weir All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 96-50314 ISBN 1-55849-083-3 (cloth); 084-1 (pbk.) Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in New Baskerville Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. 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 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. 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

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A masterful study of the hidden roots of contemporary culture and should b read by anyone interested in how and why our intellectual landscape has changed quite dramatically since the Victorian era.
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