Fractured times
Subtitle: culture and society in the twentieth century
By: Eric Hobsbawm
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781595589774
Subjects: Art and society; Modern Civilization; Social history; History
Description: "Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siecle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle epoque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers."--
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Litle, Brown"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Predicament of "High Culture" Today; title: The Culture of the Bourgeois World; title: Uncertainties, Science, Religion; title: From Art to Myth.