Download or read book Baroque Reason written by Christine Buci-Glucksmann and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1994-03-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity through the works of a number of writers and philosophers. She considers how figures such as Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Barthes and Lacan constitute a baroque paradigm, united by their allegorical style, their conflation of aesthetics with ethics and their subject matter.