All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Read the book if you want a broad approach to modernism. One should enter the first pages of this book with some understanding of a dialectical approach, though they need not be read in Hegel. Most importantly one should have read Marx --Tucker has a good companion that will suffice as a primer. Some familiarity of the Faust stories --preferably with main understanding regarding the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe work, though Berman is not exclusive however he does work the reader through alternative instantiations. Baudelaire may prove the most inaccessible chapter for most --be aware that the focus here is not on Flowers of Evil, but on some of the essay works.This is a short book that may be difficult for some who are not well read. It is worth the time to do some pre-reading to fill in the book and enable the reader to engage Berman's claims, rather than read and nod at his assertions.

This was a great read.

This work is an important text on modernism and image. It builds off of Karl Marx's work, understandably since Berman was a Marx scholar. I haven't finished it, yet but I read it in a class about fragmented cities and Walter Benjamin. I'd definitely recommend it, because of its writing style.

Excellent interpretation of the cycle of creation and destruction involved in modernization, modernism and "the modern." Truly eye opening and makes you think about the world very differently.

These ratings are not relevant to this book. It is a brilliant work of scholarship by a great scholar.

great book

Really interesting book

A masterpiece about the ways that modernity whas been experienced in different parts of the world.

Used in it in my dissertation ...great source book

Es un libro sencillamente genial. La mejor teoría politica del siglo XX y XXI. Imprescindible para conocer nuestra realidad social y política.

Great read...