The Age of the Crisis of Man : : Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 / / Mark Greif.
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif c...
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Greif, Mark, author. The Age of the Crisis of Man : Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 / Mark Greif. Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Genesis -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Currents through the War -- CHAPTER 3. The End of the War and After -- PART II. Transmission -- CHAPTER 4. Criticism and the Literary Crisis of Man -- PART III. Studies in Fiction -- CHAPTER 5. Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison -- CHAPTER 6. Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow -- CHAPTER 7. Flannery O'Connor and Faith -- CHAPTER 8. Thomas Pynchon and Technology -- PART IV. Transmutation -- CHAPTER 9. The Sixties as Big Bang -- CHAPTER 10. Universal Philosophy and Antihumanist Theory -- CONCLUSION. Moral History and the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers this lost line of thought to show how it influenced society, politics, and culture before, during, and long after World War II.During the 1930s and 1940s, fears of the barbarization of humanity energized New York intellectuals, Chicago protoconservatives, European Jewish émigrés, and native-born bohemians to seek "re-enlightenment," a new philosophical account of human nature and history. After the war this effort diffused, leading to a rebirth of modern human rights and a new power for the literary arts.Critics' predictions of a "death of the novel" challenged writers to invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested philosophical questions against social realities-race, religious faith, and the rise of technology-that kept difference and diversity alive.By the 1960s, the idea of "universal man" gave way to moral antihumanism, as new sensibilities and social movements transformed what had come before. Greif's reframing of a foundational debate takes us beyond old antagonisms into a new future, and gives a prehistory to the fractures of our own era. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) American fiction 20th century History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110444186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691146393 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852109?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400852109.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Genesis -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Currents through the War -- CHAPTER 3. The End of the War and After -- PART II. Transmission -- CHAPTER 4. Criticism and the Literary Crisis of Man -- PART III. Studies in Fiction -- CHAPTER 5. Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison -- CHAPTER 6. Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow -- CHAPTER 7. Flannery O'Connor and Faith -- CHAPTER 8. Thomas Pynchon and Technology -- PART IV. Transmutation -- CHAPTER 9. The Sixties as Big Bang -- CHAPTER 10. Universal Philosophy and Antihumanist Theory -- CONCLUSION. Moral History and the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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