{"product_id":"all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air-the-experience-of-modernity-paperback","title":"All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarshall Berman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable.\" --Mervyn Jones, \u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old--all have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarshall Berman\u003c\/b\u003e was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a distinguished professor of political science at City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Solid Melts into Air\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote the introduction to Penguin Books' edition of Karl Marx's \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 7.66 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753678733600,"sku":"9780140109627","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f0cb75917126c1ec4f64816f7209b070.webp?v=1780025424","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air-the-experience-of-modernity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}