{"product_id":"1930-europe-in-the-shadow-of-the-beast-paperback","title":"1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Haberman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style \"low, dishonest.\" That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth century, the West had stumbled into war in 1914. It managed to survive a conflagration, but it failed in the aftermath to create something valued.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In 1930, Europe was questioning itself and its own viability. Where are we heading? a number of public intellectuals asked. Who are we and how do we build moral social and political structures? Can we continue to believe in the insights and healing quality of our culture? Major thinkers--Mann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley-- as well as a number of artists, including Picasso and Magritte, and musicians, such as Weill, sought to grapple with issues that remain central to our lives today: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecoming to terms with a darker view of human nature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003emass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eidentity and the \"other\" in Western civilization \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003enew ways to represent the postwar world \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe new Fascism--was it a new norm or an aberration? \u003cp\u003e Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Haberman is University Professor of History and Humanities at York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003e1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e (WLU Press, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42108601041031,"sku":"9781771123617","price":49.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/97641870f5e5444bcd8deae6e17529b4.webp?v=1732466789","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/1930-europe-in-the-shadow-of-the-beast-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}