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

Higgs, John

 
9780297870890: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN 10 : 0297870890 ISBN 13 : 9780297870890
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015

Synopsis

The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering twenty-first century, adrift in a network of constant surveillance, unsustainable competition, tsunamis of trivia and extraordinary opportunity. Time, then, for a new perspective. With John Higgs as our guide, we step off the main path and wander through some of the more curious backwaters of the twentieth century, exploring familiar and unfamiliar territory alike, finding fresh insight on our journey to the present day. We travel in the company of some of the most radical artists, scientists, geniuses and crazies of their age. They show us that great innovations such as relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, postmodernism and chaos maths are not the incomprehensible, abstract horrors that we assume them to be, but signposts that bring us to the world we live in now. John Higgs brings us an alternative history of the strangest of centuries. He shows us how the elegant, clockwork universe of the Victorians became increasingly woozy and uncertain; and how we discovered that our world is not just stranger than we imagine but, in the words of Sir Arthur Eddington, 'stranger than we can imagine'.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Higgs is the author I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED, THE KLF, STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE, WATLING STREET, THE FUTURE STARTS HERE, WILLIAM BLAKE NOW, WILLIAM BLAKE VS THE WORLD and LOVE AND LET DIE. He lives in Brighton.

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Éditeur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0297870890
ISBN 13 
9780297870890
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1780226578 ISBN 13 :  9781780226576
Editeur : W&N, 2016
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