Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure

Contents......Page 6
Foreword: The Changing Face of History......Page 8
Translator's Introduction: The Translating Mechanism......Page 22
Preface......Page 33
Introduction: Baroque Culture as a Concept of Epoch......Page 42
I. THE CONFLICTIVE NATURE OF BAROQUE SOCIETY......Page 56
1. Social Tensions and the Consciousness of Crisis......Page 58
II. THE SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BAROQUE CULTURE......Page 94
2. A Guided Culture......Page 96
3. A Mass Culture......Page 118
4. An Urban Culture......Page 143
5. A Conservative Culture......Page 165
III. ELEMENTS OF A BAROQUE WORLD VIEW......Page 186
6. The Image of the World and Human Being......Page 188
7. Fundamental Concepts of the Worldly Structure of Life......Page 212
IV. BAROQUE SOCIETY AND THE MEANS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS......Page 244
8. The Technique of Incompleteness......Page 246
9. The Social Role of Artifice......Page 264
Appendix: Sociopolitical Objectives of the Use of Visual Media......Page 290
Notes......Page 306
A......Page 358
C......Page 359
D......Page 360
G......Page 361
J......Page 362
M......Page 363
N......Page 364
P......Page 365
R......Page 366
T......Page 367
W......Page 368
Z......Page 369