Wolfgang Hardtwig

Hochkultur Des Burgerlichen Zeitalters (Kritische Studien Zur Geschichtswissenschaft) Wolfgang Hardtwig

Hardtwigs book analyses the relationship between the bourgeois conquest of reality (Welteroberung) and the universe of forms of an era that lead from the aesthetics of old European elite cultures to that of modern mass culture. It deals with the perception and shaping of natural spaces and urban landscapes, the symbolizing of the nation, the sociology of art sponsorship, utopian designs of order, and the aesthetical dimension of bourgeois narratives concerning itself.