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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: New Press, The

It is a form that particularly resonates in our technology-drenched socially fractured time. Birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, and graduations have all been interrupted. Feb 4, 2014 - The literary and the cultural atmosphere of the 20th century were characterized by deep change. Feb 11, 2014 - Originally confined to elites, the nova effect becomes generalized and in the second half of the twentieth century there arises in Western societies a generalized culture of “authenticity” or expressive individualism. 4 days ago - Our current linear narrative of art history posits a seismic shift in the way we consider and produce art after the most influential artist of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp, revealed Fountain in 1917. The then-progressive Society of Independent Artists promptly rejected Fountain for exhibition claiming it was not art. May 14, 2014 - Government regulations have become so strict that every time a patient scratches themselves, a physician gets a phone call. Nov 29, 2013 - 'Fractured Times' by E J Hobsbawm, E J Hobsbawm Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century Little, Brown, London, 2013. The “buffered Reforming Islam would be achieved by returning to the “fundamentals” of the religion (the Koran and the Hadith) and to a pristine early history of the time of the Prophet Muhammad, which was to be revered and emulated as an ideal. Jun 18, 2013 - Don't waste your time.” Well, okay…It's easy now for me to see what he was doing, and, despite the arresting ridiculousness of such a know-it-all performance, I suppose I could derive some sort of lesson about how books work (or, more importantly, how some The latter half of the twentieth century saw intellectual debates, battles over ideas and assumptions that, through a “contagion of metaphors,” resulted in a move towards disaggregation, towards fracture. Generally, labelled as Modernism, it shattered a whole system of ideas As we have already said, the changes that affected society during this time also influenced its literary expression and around the second decade of the 20th century there was a clear shift from the Victorian to the modern novel. UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Mar 31, 2013 - When you call a thinker a “conservative communist”, you sound as if you are making a weak joke. Mar 25, 2014 - To be sure, the basic ideas of feminism — the notion women should enjoy the same rights and privileges as men — had been percolating in the background of Western society for some time. During the French The culture has changed radically, and those in the West who still argue that women should hold their traditional place in society and no more are rightly seen as chauvinists and/or religious fanatics — kooks barely worth listening to.