Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Hobsbawm, Eric

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ISBN 10: 1408704285 ISBN 13: 9781408704288

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2013

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Eric Hobsbawm wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power, qualities evident in this posthumously published collection (Richard J Evans Guardian)

Arguably Britain's most respected historian of any kind, one of a tiny handful of historians of any era to enjoy genuine national and world renown . . . Both in his knowledge of detail and in his extraordinary powers of synthesis, he was unrivalled (Guardian)

Reveals on every page [Hobsbawm's] characteristic boldness of interpretation, astonishing range and versatility (Fractured Times)

One of the greatest British historians of his age . . . For sheer intellectual firepower and analytical skill, Hobsbawm remained unsurpassed (Daily Telegraph)

A magisterial historian of the modern age . . . Eric Hobsbawm pioneered the study of popular protest, riot and revolt, and his writings were as important to social scientists as to historians (The Times)

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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-siècle 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 époque 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.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408704285
• ISBN 13: 9781408704288
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336