(H/B) FRACTURED TIMES

Παρουσίαση

Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siecle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation and dissolution with characteristic verve and vigour.
Hobsbawm examines the conditions that created the great cultural flowering of the belle epoque and held the seeds of its disintegration, from paternalistic capitalism to globalisation and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, Hobsbawm ranges freely across his subject: he records the passing of the golden age of the 'free intellectual' and examines the lives of great, forgotten men; he analyses the relation between art and totalitarianism and dissects cultural phenomena as diverse as surrealism, women's emancipation and the American cowboy myth.
Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers. (From the publisher)

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Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Manifestos
PART I: THE PREDICAMENT OF "HIGH CULTURE" TODAY
2. Where are the arts going?
3. A century of cultural symbiosis?
4. Why hold festivals in the twenty-first century?
5. Politics and culture in the new century
PART II: THE CULTURE OF THE BOURGEOIS WORLD
6. Enlightenment and achievement: the emancipation of Jewish talent since 1800
7. The Jews and Germany
8. Mitteleuropean destinies
9. Culture and gender in European bourgeois society 1870-1914
10. Art Nouveau
11. The last days of mankind
12. Heritage
PART III: UNCERTAINTIES, SCIENCE, RELIGION
13. Worrying about the future
14. Science: social function and world change
15. Mandarin in a Phrygian cap: Joseph Needham
16. The intellectuals: role, function and paradox
17. The prospect of public religion
18. Art and revolution
19. Art and power
20. The Avant-Garde fails
PART IV: FROM ART TO MYTH
21. Pop goes the artist: our exploding culture
22. The American cowboy: an international myth?
Notes
Dates and sources of original publication
Index