Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsFirst off, subject matter aside, Marshall Berman is a beautiful damn writer. He can take four weighty, academic ideas-- the relationship between Faust and modern technology, Baudelaire's conception of ... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Chelsea Szendi - GoodreadsThis is a really hard book to classify. Its premise is to take a particularly haunting phrase from the Communist Manifesto and discuss the dislocating effects of modernity in an impressionistic way. I ... 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
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Review: All Thats Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Malcolm - GoodreadsThe title comes from one of the more poetic moments in the Communist Manifesto (the full sentence is – 17 paragraphs into part 1: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and ... 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 - Seth - GoodreadsLike Greil Marcus, though not quite as good, the author often seems far too invested in the political rhetoric of the 1960s and lets his own youthful dreams blind him to the realities of the twentieth ... Read full review
Review: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
User Review - Zach - GoodreadsAs reading the introduction left me with little more than embarrassment for Berman's atrociously sloppy writing and slipshod anything-goes methodology, I say: nuts to this. 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 - AC - GoodreadsBerman's point is clear and casts an important light -- his notion of modernity and, far more importantly to me, the claim that modernity has deep roots that should be nourishing and renewing ... Read full review
