The Intellectuals and the Masses
Download or Read eBook The Intellectuals and the Masses PDF written by John Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John Carey |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780571265107 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0571265103 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Intellectuals and the Masses by : John Carey
Book excerpt: 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.
