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The Intellectuals and the Masses Professor John Carey

The Intellectuals and the Masses By Professor John Carey

The Intellectuals and the Masses by Professor John Carey


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Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

The Intellectuals and the Masses Summary

The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by Professor John Carey

Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

About Professor John Carey

John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?and a life of William Golding. He is also the editor of The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.

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GOR001298042
9780571169269
0571169260
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by Professor John Carey
Used - Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
19921001
256
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