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The anatomy of despondency : European socio-cultural criticism, 1789 - 1939 / by Jaap Harskamp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harskamp, Jacob Teunis.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 8.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 195
- Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anomy--History.
- Anomy.
- Criticism--Europe--History.
- Criticism.
- Social conflict--Europe--History.
- Social conflict.
- Technological innovations--Europe--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (887 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Socio-cultural criticism is the continuous assessment and evaluation of developments within democratic society and hence a vital ingredient of democracy itself. Departing from the French Revolution, this study focuses upon a tradition of European criticism. On the whole, critics accepted that technological advance was irreversible but they opposed the assumption that this implied general progress. Instead, they stressed the negatives: class conflict, erosion of tradition, mechanization of life, fragmentation of society, loss of cultural differentiation. The approach is exclusively text-orientated. The result is a multi-coloured mosaic depicting an image of what has moved, confused or dismayed the European mind over a period of a century and a half. The intensity of concern has shaped our contemporary thought, awareness and outlook.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ASPECTS OF PHYSIOGNOMY
- DISINTEGRATION
- THE DEMOCRATIC WAY
- MAN AND MACHINERY
- MONEY AND COMMERCE
- IDEOLOGICAL CONFUSION
- ENDS AND MEANS
- THREATS TO THE INDIVIDUAL
- DEVITALIZATION
- PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS
- ART AND ALIENATION
- PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
- EUROPE: DIVISIONS AND DILEMMAS
- BIOGRAPHICAL AUTHOR INDEX
- NAME INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-85634-4
- 90-04-20241-2
- OCLC:
- 813165126
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004194038.1-887 DOI
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