Fractured Times

Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm

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Little Brown
11 March 2014

History; General & world history

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-si cle 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

poque 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.

By: Eric Hobsbawm
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780349139098
ISBN 10: 0349139091
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 11 March 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Hobsbawm was a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before retirement he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and after retirement at the New School for Social Research in New York. His previous books include The Age of Extremes, The AGe of Revolution and The Age of Empire. He died at the age of ninety-five in October 2012.

Reviews for Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power, qualities evident in this posthumously published collection -- Richard J Evans Guardian Reveals on every page [Hobsbawm's] characteristic boldness of interpretation, astonishing range and versatility Fractured Times