How have modern Europeans understood the times in which they live? Many accounts of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe tend to emphasize degeneration or acceleration - a return to the past, or the rush to the future. This volume, however, shows how writers, artists, politicians and sociologists brought the present into focus by re-casting time in terms of human experience. With fresh contributions from history, politics, literary studies, musicology, cultural studies and art history, it shows how the search for the human present defined the culture, politics and ideas of Western Europe from the 1860s to the 1930s. The pressing search for the human present uncovered in these essays is, if anything, of even greater relevance today.
| ISBN: | 9780197266977 |
| Publication date: | 7th October 2021 |
| Author: | N J G Wright, Allegra Fryxell |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Cultural studies European history |
How have modern Europeans understood the times in which they live? Many accounts of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe tend to emphasize degeneration or acceleration - a return to the past, or the rush to the future. This volume, however, shows how writers, artists, politicians and sociologists brought the present into focus by re-casting time in terms of human experience. With fresh contributions from history, politics, literary studies, musicology, cultural studies and art history, it shows how the search for the human present defined the culture, politics and ideas of Western Europe from the 1860s to the 1930s. The pressing search for the human present uncovered in these essays is, if anything, of even greater relevance today.
Time on a Human Scale features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Cultural studies, European history
Time on a Human Scale is available in Hardback
Time on a Human Scale was written by N J G Wright, Allegra Fryxell and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Time on a Human Scale has 344 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy series