Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - Brossura

Higgs, John

 
9781593766269: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN 10: 1593766262 ISBN 13: 9781593766269
Casa editrice: Soft Skull Pr, 2015

Sinossi

In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism.

In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, Higgs shows us, we need to shift the framework of our interpretation and view these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative. Instead of looking at it as another step forward in a stable path, we need to look at the twentieth century as a chaotic seismic shift, upending all linear narratives.

Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century “about which we know too much&; in order to grant us a new perspective on it. He brings a refreshingly non-academic, eclectic and infectiously energetic approach to his subjects as well as a unique ability to explain how complex ideas connect and intersect—whether he&;s discussing Einstein&;s theories of relativity, the Beat poets' interest in Eastern thought or the bright spots and pitfalls of the American Dream.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Higgs created the long-running BBC Radio 4 quiz show “X Marks the Spot&; and has directed BAFTA-winning episodes of animated pre-school British TV. He is the author of KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band that Burned a Million Pounds, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary and Our Pet Queen: A New Perspective on Monarchy.

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Editore
Soft Skull Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1593766262
ISBN 13 
9781593766269
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
341
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  1780226578 ISBN 13:  9781780226576
Casa editrice: Orion Publishing Co, 2016
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