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