Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by Higgs, John

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

This study of the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries is "an illuminating work of...
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Author: John Higgs
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by Higgs, John

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

Dhs. 109.63

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

Dhs. 109.63
Author: John Higgs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This study of the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries is "an illuminating work of massive insight" on the complex ideas and events that dramatically differentiate both eras (Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen).

"An always-provocative view of an era that many people would just as soon forget . . . an absorbing tour of the 20th century." --Kirkus Reviews

In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture, and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism.

In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, Higgs shows us, we need to shift the framework of our interpretation and view these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative. Instead of looking at it as another step forward in a stable path, we need to look at the twentieth century as a chaotic seismic shift, upending all linear narratives.

Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century "about which we know too much" in order to grant us a new perspective on it. He brings a refreshingly non-academic, eclectic and infectiously energetic approach to his subjects as well as a unique ability to explain how complex ideas connect and intersect--whether he's discussing Einstein's theories of relativity, the Beat poets' interest in Eastern thought or the bright spots and pitfalls of the American Dream.

Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781593766269


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2015

About the Author
John Higgs created the long-running BBC Radio 4 quiz show "X Marks the Spot" and has directed BAFTA-winning episodes of animated pre-school British TV. He is the author of KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band that Burned a Million Pounds, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary and Our Pet Queen: A New Perspective on Monarchy.

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