Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135378 in Books
• Published on: 1983-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
All That Is Sold Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition contains an updated preface addressing the critical role the onset of modernism played in popular democratic upheavals in the late 1920s.

Customer Reviews

A Masterpiece on Modernity
This book develops the idea that Modernity's defining characteristic is that of the continual reassertion of ambivalence. In light of this argument the author revisits writers such as Goete, Marx and Dostoevsky adding new dimensions to them all as well as to our understanding of Modernity. A book of tremendous wisdom and intelligence. Well written and highly recommended.

Thrilling
One of the greatest books about the relevance of Marxism to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ever written. A thrilling roller coaster ride about love in cafes, city planning, architecture, romance, how we work and how we live. Incomparable.