Five Faces of Modernity

马泰·卡林内斯库（Matei Calinescu），美国印第安纳大学比较文学教授。著有《文学与政治》（1982）、《现代主义与意识形态》（1986）等。

出版者:Duke University Press Books

作者:Matei Calinescu

页数:422

出版时间:1987-6-1

价格:USD 28.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780822307679

图书标签:現代性文学理论modernity文化研究Avant-garde建筑理论建筑批评理论

"Five Faces of Modernity" is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: "modernity," "avant-garde," "decadence," "kitsch," and "postmodernism." The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise.

"Five Faces of Modernity" attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as "classicism," "baroque," "romanticism," "realism," or "symbolism" and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.

读后感

这本书，是看王宏宝的现代西方美学史视频中推荐的，看到了后现代这一篇，只感觉篇首和篇尾有意思外，其他都记不住。个人感觉，不如伯曼写的一切坚固的东西都烟消云散了好。举例太多，过于分散，观点不知就里，可能我比较懒，没研深。不像伯曼的重点分析，举的例子很少。。。。...  

导读（译者言） 两种尖锐冲突而相互依存的现代性：社会现代性（资产阶级的现代性）和审美现代性（文化现代性和文学现代性） 现代主义：十九世纪和二十世纪之交的产物，并不号称终于历史，忠于当下鲜活的个人经验。 先锋派：十九世纪，先锋派的概念只是现代性的一种激进化的、高...  

大体按照书的顺序来，有按自己的思路做过改动。 现代性的五副面孔 [美]马泰·卡林内斯库 一.现代主义 ·“现代性”的词源辨析 1.古代-现代、巨人-侏儒 2.培根：现代人处于世界的老年期 3.广泛的文艺现象 ·时间概念：古典=永恒、中世纪=黑暗、现代=进步/光明 ·现代性（资产阶...  

抓住资产阶级现代性和审美现代性的对立划分，以及“时间”这个关键词，还是能尽量把握一下全书的观点。不过很多地方确实是模糊地读过去，没办法搞清楚，历史和词源这两个分析角度并不友好。导言和第一章现代性概念的起点很高，导致读二三四章的时候心里不是很舒畅，落差有点大...  

用户评价

仍然是一本不错的学习设计或是艺术相关书籍

more factual than Benjamin, more readable than Nietzsche

only introduction

more factual than Benjamin, more readable than Nietzsche

Decadence和 Kitsch两部分写得稍弱、有些乱（特别是Decadence）。Modernism那部分很精彩地阐明了不同的理论发展和翻译路线及流派，特别是对苏联关于“现代主义”的理解阐释得很清楚，对研究中国当代艺术很有帮助。