Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology [#961800]

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English | January 23, 2025 | ISBN: 1009474472 | True PDF | 326 pages | 4.9 MB
John Hoffmann argues that a combination of aesthetics and anthropology allowed modernist writers to challenge social hierarchies they associated with the nineteenth century. He shows how Enlightenment philosophers synthesized the two discourses and how modernists working in the early twentieth century then took up this synthesis to dispute categories of social difference that had been naturalized, and thus legitimized, by pre-evolutionary and Darwinian anthropological theories.