Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Jocelyn Koehler - GoodreadsOn my "currently reading" shelf because I've never actually finished it. But I love to dip in and try to muddle through a few pages at a time. Always tips my brain in a new direction... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - FX Altomare - GoodreadsAn excellent overview of modernity, written in an accessible style with copious references to a range of works from literature, architecture, philosophy, economics, and more. The major flaw, however ... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Perrystroika - GoodreadsI love this book. it's sloppy, unsystematic and repetitive. it also got me to read Goethe, Pushkin, Biely, Gogol, Jane Jacobs and Robert Caro and in that sense it does what criticism should do, it transmits passion. Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Justin - Goodreadsi would give it 4.5 if i could halve stars. it would be a 5 if not for the section on st petersburg. and i love russian literature. it just isn't as relevant/enthralling as the rest. but really. i feel so much more understanding of my world and art and politics because of this book. Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - kathryn - Goodreadsin a class with the author so working on the book with baudelaire et al. His commentary is great and lyrically lovely. quintessential book on modernity and the city. didn't read the whole thing but ... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - G - Goodreadsbook about modernity, its history and development through the 1970s. Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Liz - Goodreadslove this book Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsAn insightful study of Modernism as it grew inside its population centers (New York, Paris, St Petersburg) as coaxial to the numerous changes of the 1850s: sidewalks, steel, streets, politics ... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Matt - GoodreadsBerman's unorthodox approach to Marx really summed up my own political philosophy. This is digestible theory. A must read for those that remain optimistic. Read full review