{"product_id":"facing-the-abyss-9780231163385","title":"Facing the Abyss","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Hutchinson offers readings of individual works and the larger intellectual and cultural scene to reveal the 1940s as a period of profound and influential accomplishment. \u003ci\u003eFacing the Abyss \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the relation of aesthetics to politics, the idea of universalism, and connections across racial, ethnic, and gender divisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together art, literature, philosophy, and music, Hutchinson has created a kind of critical mosaic that produces insights that open up the 1940s as a cultural field, grounded in the ungrounded processes of art as incalculable experience. The juxtapositions of unconnected figures induce in the reader a new vision of the era and new dimensions of the authors and works discussed. It is a work of exceptionally deft intellectual choreography, conducted with enviable precision and concision. -- Ross Posnock, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. When Literature Mattered\u003cbr\u003e2. Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e3. Labor, Politics, and the Arts\u003cbr\u003e4. The War\u003cbr\u003e5. America! America! A Jewish Renaissance?\u003cbr\u003e6. A Rising Wind: “Literature of the Negro” and Civil Rights\u003cbr\u003e7. Queer Horizons\u003cbr\u003e8. Women and Power\u003cbr\u003e9. Culture and Ecology\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: One World\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400272257367,"sku":"9780231163385","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231163385.jpg?v=1730470248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/facing-the-abyss-9780231163385","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}