All That Is Solid Melts into Air

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity is a book by Marshall Berman, written between 1971 and 1981 and published in New York City in 1982, examining social and economic modernization and its conflicting relationship with modernism. The book's title is taken from Samuel Moore's 1888 translation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Berman uses Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust as a literary interpretation of modernization through the processes of dreaming, loving and developing, then draws on Marxist texts and on French and Russian literature to trace the same theme across different national traditions.