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John Higgs

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59376-626-9
  • EAN: 9781593766269
  • Produktnummer: 17762255
  • Verlag: Soft Skull Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 356 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.2 cm 417 g
  • Gewicht: 417

Über den Autor


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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