Isbn: 9780521281539 - beyond the tragic vision: the quest for identity in the nineteenth century (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. This book is an attempt to find the central nerve of nineteenth-century culture, to discover the problem which unifies the most important cultural documents in the century's philosophy, literature, painting and music. The author sketches how, with the collapse of the Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century, it became necessary for the individual to derive order, meaning and value from his own identity rather from the objective world. Professor Peckham sees four stages in the nineteenth century's effort to solve the problem of finding a ground for human identity: the period of discovery and analogy from man to nature (sometimes called Romanticism), the period of Transcendentalism.…

Zustand: Good. Paperback, 380pp, wear and crease on cover,slightly sunned edges, writing on some pages.

Zustand: Good. Bound into hardback by library. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. An attempt to understand the nineteenth-century's need to derive order from the individual rather than the objective world. Num Pages: 384 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588. . 2009. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …