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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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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