Title
Modern Times, Modern Places,New
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
The World Changed Faster During The Twentieth Century Than Ever Before. Science And Technology Set The Pace, Promoting Men To The Air Like Gods. There Were Revolutions On The Streets, But Also In The Head: Uprisings Of The Marxist Proletariat And Of The Freudian Id. The New Physics Of Einstein And His Colleagues Changed Our Understanding Of Nature By Showing That Matter Is Made Up Of Empty Space, And Modern Architects Constructed Buildings To Match Those New Structural Principles. Painters Such As Picasso And Dali Denied They Were Distorting The Human Form: They Were Simply Acknowledging The Ways In Which Modern Men And Women Were Different, Both Physiologically And Psychologically.Little Wonder That, Even Before Our Unprecedented Century Has Concluded, Its Culture Has Been Studied, Dissected, Analyzed, Questioned, Rejected, And Embraced. We Are Exhilarated By Our Own Story. Yet The Twentieth Centurys Proud Rejection Of The Western Humanist Past And Its Newly Specialized Intellectual Style Has Left Our Understanding Of It In Fragments. But Rescue Is At Hand, For In Modern Times, Modern Places, The Noted Critic Peter Conradranging Brilliantly Between Literature, The Visual Arts, Music And The Performing Arts, Science, And Psychoanalysisconnects These Disparate Areas And Sees The Modern Era As A Whole.Taking His Cue From The Declaration Of The Italian Futurists That Time And Space Had Been Abruptly Killed Off By Einsteins Timespace Continuum, He Investigates The Notion And The Nature Of Modern Times: The Justified Conviction That We Have Lived Through A Unique Testing Period In The Experience Of Mankind. He Also Describes The Places That Were Frontiers Of Modernitycities Like Vienna, Moscow, Paris, And Berlin; New Worlds In The Americas; A Preview Of A Possible Future In Tokyo.Did It All Happen Too Fast And Go Too Far? Modernity Was Like A Roller Coaster Ride, During Which The Human Race Jested With Disaster And Delighted In The Havoc Created By The Play Of Gforces. Yet We Can Take Pride In Our Centurys Mental Achievements, As Well As Regretting Its Crimes. Despite The Dangers We Confront, With The Uniquely Clear Perspective Peter Conrad Provides On A Phase Of History That Has Nearly Passed We Are Much Better Prepared To Confront The New Millennium.
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