1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast by Haberman, Arthur
1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast by Haberman, Arthur

1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast

The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of...
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Author: Arthur Haberman
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1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast by Haberman, Arthur

1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast

$56.60
1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast by Haberman, Arthur

1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast

$56.60
Author: Arthur Haberman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The 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.

In 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:

  • the viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values
  • coming to terms with a darker view of human nature
  • mass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality
  • identity and the "other" in Western civilization
  • new ways to represent the postwar world
  • the epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and
  • the new Fascism--was it a new norm or an aberration?

    Arthur 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.



    • Author: Arthur Haberman
    Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Published: 09/25/2018
    Pages: 216
    Binding Type: Paperback
    Weight: 0.80lbs
    Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
    ISBN: 9781771123617

    About the Author
    Arthur Haberman is University Professor of History and Humanities at York University. He is the author of 1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast (WLU Press, 2018) and The Making of the Modern Age, and the co-author of The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections.
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