Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a
bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of
the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely
placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As
the century progressed, the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza
and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture
fin-de-siecle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the
museums of art and science, City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm
unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation and dissolution with
characteristic verve and vigour. Hobsbawm examines the conditions
that created the great cultural flowering of the belle epoque and
held the seeds of its disintegration, from paternalistic capitalism
to globalisation and the arrival of a mass consumer society.
Passionate but never sentimental, Hobsbawm ranges freely across his
subject: he records the passing of the golden age of the 'free
intellectual' and examines the lives of great, forgotten men; he
analyses the relation between art and totalitarianism and dissects
cultural phenomena as diverse as surrealism, women's emancipation
and the American cowboy myth. Written with consummate imagination
and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our
greatest modern-day thinkers.
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