Return of the Baroque

The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture explores the reinvention of the early European Baroque within the philosophical, cultural and literary thought of post-modernism in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. Gregg Lambert argues that the ‘return of the Baroque’ expresses a principle often hidden behind the cultural logic of post-modernism in its various national and cultural incarnations, a principle often at variance with Anglo-American modernism. Writers and theorists examined include Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Octavio Paz and Cuban novelists Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy. A highly original and compelling re-interpretation of modernity, The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture answers Raymond Williams’ charge to create alternative national and international accounts of aesthetic and cultural history in order to challenge the centrality of Anglo-American modernism.

Author Biography

Gregg Lambert is Associate Professor in English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University and author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.