Modernism, aesthetics and anthropology /
John Hoffmann argues that a combination of aesthetics and anthropology allowed modernist writers to challenge social hierarchies they associated with the nineteenth century. He shows how Enlightenment philosophers synthesized the two discourses and how modernists working in the early twentieth centu...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Anthropology from an aesthetic point of view
- Ideals of beauty
- Militant neoclassicism
- Philosophers of the cabal
- Prometheus found
- Socialist realism, socialist expressionism
- Coda: Eusynoptos.