Dialectic of Romanticism

Peter Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Communications at the Victoria University of Wellington. David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Melbourne. Both authors are co-editors of the journal Thesis Eleven.

• Introduction; Part One: Mytho-Logics of Modernity; 1. Introduction: The Retreat and Return of the Origin; 2. The Idea of Natural History; 3. A New Mythology; 4. The Disenchantment of Romantic Nature; 5. Original Imitation; 6. Metaphors of Creation; 7. Newly Invented Myths: Wagner; 8. Myth and Enlightenment: Nietzsche; 9. Mytho-Logics; Part Two: Modernism and Civilization; 10. Introduction: Artifice and History; 11. The Gate; 12. Truth In Building: Mies van der Rohe; 13. Architectures: Schinkel; 14. The House of the Gods: Heidegger; 15. The Iron Cage: Wittgenstein; 16. Greek Lessons: Mies van der Rohe in America; 17. Aedifictions; 18. Rhythms: Loos and Ives; Part Three: Modernity's Utopias; 19. Introduction: Aesthetic Modernism; 20. Modernism's Utopias; 21. A New Dialectic

"A significant intellectual accomplishment" Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council; "A companion to the famous essay by Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment... I recommend the book not just on the grounds of its general conception but also for the refinement of the analyses and richness of the material it contains." Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York"