Asholt, Wolfgang and Fähnders, Walter (eds) (1995) Manifeste und Proklamationen der europäischen Avantgarde (1909-1938). Stuttgart: Metzler.
2.
Benjamin, Walter (1969) Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books .
3.
Bürger, Peter (1984) Theory of the Avant-Garde. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
4.
Debord, Guy (1983) The Society of the Spectacle. Detroit: Black and Red .
5.
Derrida, Jacques (1967) De la grammatologie. Paris: Eds. du Minuit.
6.
Eisenstadt, S. N. (2001) ‘The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization’ , International Sociology16: 320-340 .
7.
Fornoff, Roger (2004) Die Sehnsucht nach dem Gesamtkunstwerk. Studien zu einer ästhetischen Konzeption der Moderne. Hildesheim: Olms.
8.
Gentile, Emilio (1997) ‘The Myth of National Regeneration in Italy: From Modernist Avant-Garde to Fascism’, in Matthew Affron and Mark Antliff (eds) Fascist Visions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press .
9.
Gropius, Walter (1961) The Theater of the Bauhaus. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press .
10.
Groys, Boris (1992) The Total Art of Stalin: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press .
11.
Heidegger, Martin (1991) Nietzsche (vols I and II). San Francisco: Harper Collins .
12.
Jay, Martin (1984) Marxism and Totality. Cambridge: Polity Press .
13.
Kandinsky, Wassily (1982) Kandinsky. Complete Writings on Art (1901-1921). London: Faber and Faber .
14.
Large, Daniel and Weber, William (eds) (1984) Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press .
15.
Marquard, Odo (1983) ‘Gesamtkunstwerk und Identitätsystem’, in Harald Szeemann (ed.) Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk, pp. 40-49. Aarau: Sauerländer.
16.
Markus, György (2003) ‘The Paradoxical Unity of Culture: The Arts and the Sciences’ , Thesis Eleven75: 7-24 .
17.
Nancy, Jean-Luc (1991) The Inoperative Community. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press .
18.
Nisbet, Robert A. (1966) The Sociological Tradition. New York: Basic Books .
19.
Quatremère de Quincy (1989) Considérations morales sur la destination des ouvrages de l’art. Paris: Fayard.
20.
Roberts, David (2003a) ‘Illusion only is Sacred: From the Culture Industry to the Aesthetic Economy’ , Thesis Eleven73: 83-95 .
21.
Roberts, David (2003b) ‘Towards a Genealogy and Typology of the Spectacle’ , Thesis Eleven75: 54-68 .
22.
Roberts, David and Murphy, Peter (2004) Dialectic of Romanticism. London: Continuum .
23.
Stites, Richard (1989) Revolutionary Dreams. Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press .
24.
Szeemann, Harald (1983) Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk. Europäische Utopien seit1800. Aarau: Sauerländer.
25.
Thompson, Kenneth (1990) ‘Secularization and Sacralization’, in J. C. Alexander and P. Sztompa (eds) Rethinking Progress: Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the 20th Century, pp. 161-181. Boston: Unwin Hyman .
