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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Idea of Modernity | |
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| Modern Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Ancient Giants | |
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| The Problem of Time: Three Eras of Western History | |
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| It Is We Who Are the Ancients | |
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| Comparing the Moderns to the Ancients | |
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| From Modern to Gothic to Romantic to Modern | |
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| The Two Modernities | |
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| Baudelaire and the Paradoxes of Aesthetic Modernity | |
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| Modernity, the Death of God, and Utopia | |
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| Literary and Other Modernisms | |
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| Comparing the Moderns to the Contemporaries | |
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| The Idea of the Avant-Garde | |
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| From Modernity to the Avant-Garde | |
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| The "Avant-Garde" | |
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| Metaphor in the Renaissance: A Rhetorical Figure | |
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| The Romantic "Avant-Garde": From Politics to the Politics of Culture | |
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| Some Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writers and the Avant-Garde | |
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| Two Avant-Gardes: Attractions and Repulsions | |
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| Avant-Garde and Aesthetic Extremism | |
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| The Crisis of Avant-Garde's Concept in the 1960s | |
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| Avant-Garde, Dehumanization, and the End of Ideology | |
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| Avant-Garde and Postmodernism | |
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| Intellectualism, Anarchism, and Stasis | |
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| The Idea of Decadence | |
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| Versions of Decadence | |
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| From "Decadence" to "Style of Decadence" | |
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| The Decadent Euphoria | |
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| Nietzsche on "Decadence" and "Modernity" | |
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| The Concept of Decadence in Marxist Criticism | |
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| Il Decadentismo | |
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| Kitsch | |
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| Kitsch and Modernity | |
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| Kitsch, Camp, and High Art | |
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| Etymology, Contexts of Usage, and the "Law of Aesthetic Inadequacy" | |
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| Kitsch and Romanticism | |
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| Bad Taste, Ideology, and Hedonism | |
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| Some Stylistic Considerations | |
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| Kitsch and Cultural Industrialization | |
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| The "Kitsch-Man" | |
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| On Postmodernism (1986) | |
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| A New Face of Modernity | |
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| Epistemology and Hermeneutics: From Modernity to Postmodernity | |
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| The Silence of the Avant-Garde | |
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| The Novelty of the Past: The View from Architecture | |
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| Critiques of Postmodernism | |
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| Literary Postmodernism: The Shaping of a Corpus | |
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| Postmodernist Devices and Their Significance | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Critical Bibliography | |
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| Index | |