"Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period."-- From publisher's website.
Contents
Introduction -- Prologue: Europeans, 1930 -- 1. Thomas Mann: The uncanny and its power -- 2. Virginia Woolf: Transcending -- 3. José Ortega y Gasset: Rethinking the West -- 4. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: Rethinking theatre, remaking opera -- 5. L'âme noir: The black soul in the city of light -- 6. L.H.O.O.Q.: Painting in 1930 -- 7. Aldous Huxley: Fearing the future -- 8. Sigmund Freud: The fragility of civilization -- 9. Yesterday and today -- Epilogue: Europeans today.
