A Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History

Name: A Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
Author: Peter Watson
ISBN: 9781842124444

by Peter Watson

ISBN: 9781842124444

Published: 2001

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A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which have shaped the twentieth century. Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range...

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