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Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century

- The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History
Af: Peter Watson Engelsk Paperback

Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century

- The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History
Af: Peter Watson Engelsk Paperback
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''Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable'' THE TIMES

''A tour de force ... breathtaking'' SPECTATOR

''A magnificent achievement'' LITERARY REVIEW

TERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso''s first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative.

From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the ''Big Bang'' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book''s range is encyclopaedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.

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''Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable'' THE TIMES

''A tour de force ... breathtaking'' SPECTATOR

''A magnificent achievement'' LITERARY REVIEW

TERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso''s first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative.

From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the ''Big Bang'' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book''s range is encyclopaedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 864
ISBN-13: 9781842124444
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1842124447
Kategori: Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2001
Længde: 52mm
Bredde: 155mm
Højde: 233mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2001
Forfatter(e): Peter Watson
Forfatter(e) Peter Watson

Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie

ISBN-13 9781842124444

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 864

Udgave

Længde 52mm

Bredde 155mm

Højde 233mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2001

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2001

Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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