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Rage and Denials:

Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 18901947
  • ISBN-13: 9780271066783
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Branko Mitrovic
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2015
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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Examines the historiography of art and architecture in the German-speaking context in the first half of the twentieth

century, with a focus on the tensions between individualism and collectivism. Centers on key art-historical figures, including Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, and Hans Sedlmayr.


Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Arguments

1 Romantic Afflictions

2 Geist Versus Vernunft

3 Art and Venom

4 Liberal Humanist Rejoinder

5 Renarrativizations

6 Reverberations

Conclusion: Hubris and Method

Appendix: The Individualism-Collectivism Debate in Historical Materialism and Sociology

Notes

Bibliography

Index


Rage and Denials combines an exhaustive historical survey with philosophical acumen to provide an impassioned statement about the ethics of historiography.”

—Ian Verstegen, University of Pennsylvania

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