Thursday, December 31, 2009

Modernism expands

The attempt to synthesize art into a single form we saw in Wagner. However we saw this more stridently in philosophy and psychology. Marx tried to create a synthesized history blending economics, sociology, politics and Hegelian dialectics. He turned these dialectics on their head however. Hegel believed that ideas shaped the world. Marx believed the world shaped ideas.

Freud tried to create a scientific psychology in which history and the past affect the mind of the individual in the present.

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