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The Anatomy of Despondency: European Socio-Cultural Criticism 1789-1939

The Anatomy of Despondency: European Socio-Cultural Criticism 1789-1939

Harskamp, Jaap

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral European HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004194037
ISBN13: 9789004194038
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 21 2011
Pages: 896
Weight: 3.13
Height: 1.88 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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.

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