The Age of the Crisis of Man

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The Age of the Crisis of Man

Author	: Mark Greif
File Size	: 44,9 Mb
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 November 2016
ISBN	: 9780691173290
Pages	: 448 pages

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The Age of the Crisis of Man by Mark Greif Book PDF Summary

Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment -- Currents through the War -- The end of the War and after -- Transmission -- Criticism and the literary crisis of man -- Studies in fiction -- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions -- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers -- Flannery O'Connor and faith -- Thomas Pynchon and technology -- Transmutation -- The Sixties as big bang -- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory -- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.

The Age of the Crisis of Man by Mark Greif

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