Modern Humanities Week 10:

Constructing the Modern: Ultimate Modernism

The Idea of Modernity - notes from Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. 395p.

Nietzsche: The Self as Interpreted

• Foundations
• Alternative to Foundations
• The Self as Interpreted
• Life as Fiction
• Morality
  • Will to Power and Master-Slave morality
• Religion
• Nietzsche, Freud, and the First Thrust Toward Modernism: Part One, Part Two

Charles Baudelaire

• Brief Biography
• Excerpt from "The Painter of Modern Life"
• Baudelaire excerpts

Oscar Wilde

• Wilde, "The Decay of Lying" full text
  • Excerpts from "The Decay of Lying"

Modernity and Visuality

• 19th Century Realist Art
• Art in the Late 18th-Early 19th Century
  Photography
  • The First Photograph
  • Daguerreotype
    • History of the Daguerreotype
    • Galleries
  • Eadweard Muybridge
    • Images
  • Photographers
  • 19th Century Photography Timeline