All That Is Solid Melts into Air

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
ISBN 978-0-86091-785-4

All That Is Solid Melts into Air is an academic text written by Marshall Berman between 1971 and 1981, and published in New York City in 1982. The book examines social and economic modernization and its conflicting relationship with modernism. The title of the book is taken from the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.[1]

Berman uses Goethe's Faust as a literary interpretation of modernization, through the processes of dreaming, loving and developing. In the second section he uses Marxist texts to analyze the self-destructive nature of modernization. In the third section French poetry (especially Baudelaire) is used as model of modernist writing, followed by a selection of Russian literature (Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Bely, Gogol and Mandelstam) in the fourth section. The book concludes with some notes on modernism in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s.[2]

Further reading

  • Leonard, John (January 8, 1982), "Books Of The Times (review)", The New York Times [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marx and Engels, Collected Works (London, Lawrence & Wishart), vol. 6 (1976), p. 487.
  2. ↑ "Globality Studies Journal (GSJ) | All That Is Solid Melts Into Air — Afterword 2010". Globality.cc.stonybrook.edu. 2010-11-22. Archived from the original on 2014-06-21. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  3. ↑ "Books Of The Times". Retrieved 2018-04-13.


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