Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology

Préface
Argues that a combination of aesthetics and anthropology allowed modernist writers to challenge nineteenth century social hierarchies.

Auteur
John Hoffmann is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Chapman University.

Texte du rabat

John Hoffmann shows that Enlightenment theorists synthesized aesthetics and anthropology in an effort to reconcile social unity with the diversity of human forms. Writers in the twentieth century then took up that synthesis in order to reject social hierarchies, which had been legitimized by nineteenth century anthropology.

Contenu
Introduction; Part I: 1. Anthropology from an aesthetic point of view; 2. Ideals of beauty; 3. Militant neoclassicism; Part II: 4. Philosophers of the cabal; 5. Prometheus found; 6. Socialist realism, socialist expressionism; Coda: Eusynoptos; Bibliography; Notes.