{"product_id":"1930-europe-in-the-shadow-of-the-beast-9781771123617","title":"1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style \"\"low, dishonest.\"\" That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth century, the West had stumbled into war in 1914. It managed to survive a conflagration, but it failed in the aftermath to create something valued.\u003cp\u003eIn 1930, Europe was questioning itself and its own viability. Where are we heading? a number of public intellectuals asked. Who are we and how do we build moral social and political structures? Can we continue to believe in the insights and healing quality of our culture? Major thinkers - Mann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley -  as well as a number of artists, including Picasso and Magritte, and musicians, such as Weill, sought to grapple with issues that remain central to our lives today: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecoming to terms with a darker view of human nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eidentity and the \"\"other\"\" in Western civilization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enew ways to represent the postwar world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe new Fascism - was it a new norm or an aberration?\u003cp\u003eArthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"1930 is that rare study that is expert, readable, insightful, and fascinating. In a series of short chapters on Mann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley, Haberman captures for us the zeitgeist of the interwar years. His understanding of literary and cultural modernism during this period is a gift to cultural historians and general readers alike. Modernism isnt finished with us, and this book goes a long way to explaining why.\" - Tim Blackmore, University of Western Ontario","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190351028567,"sku":"9781771123617","price":27.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/1930-europe-in-the-shadow-of-the-beast-9781771123617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}