The West and the World Since 1500

History

Haberman, Arthur

World

Gage Distribution Co

Modern Age : Ideas of Western Civililization

Gage Educational Publishing

The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest.” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth century, the West had stumbled into war in 1914. It managed to survive a conflagration, but it failed in the aftermath to create something valued. In 1930, Europe was questioning itself and its own viability. Where are we heading? a number of public intellectuals asked. Who are we and how do we build moral social and political structures? Can we continue to believe in the insights and healing quality of our culture? Major thinkers―Mann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley― as well as a number of artists, including Picasso and Magritte, and musicians such as Weill, sought to grapple with issues that remain central to our lives today: <li>the viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values </li> <li>coming to terms with a darker view of human nature</li> <li>mass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality </li> <li>identity and the “other” in Western civilization </li> <li>new ways to represent the postwar world </li> <li>the epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and </li> <li>the new Fascism―was it a new norm or an aberration? 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. </li>

1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast

Europe

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

“What gnawed most at his soul all these years later was that those who committed those unspeakable acts against him when he was twelve, thirteen and fourteen, had simply gone on with their lives. There was no fairness in that fact—he suffered and they prospered. Perhaps they should suffer too. Perhaps that would release him from his demons.” Danny Miller lives in Toronto, an uncommonly diverse and peaceful city. Dealing with the violence that disrupts the city’s peace is Danny’s responsibility. A forty-two-year-old homicide detective, Danny now faces several murders that may be intertwined. For Danny and his team, each murder presents moral quandaries about how people of different backgrounds relate to each other in a multicultural urban centre.

Wild Justice

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Leaping Lion Books

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