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Twentieth-century culture : modernism to deconstruction

Title
Twentieth-century culture : modernism to deconstruction / Norman F. Cantor.
Author
Cantor, Norman F.
Publication
  • New York : Peter Lang, [1988]
  • ©1988

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Additional Authors
Cantor, Mindy
Description
xx, 452 pages; 23 cm
Summary
On pp. 283-290, examines modern antisemitism as a component of Western culture, caused by the great Jewish emigration westward after 1880 which aroused racist and Social Darwinist prejudices, economic jealousy, and psychological fears. Politicians capitalized on antisemitic stereotypes, holding Jews responsible for all ills. Pp. 127-129, "Jews and Modernism, " discuss the significant role of Jews in the modernist movement. Traditionalists, Catholics, and nationalists denounced modernism as a Jewish danger. Paradoxically, English modernists and German expressionists were fierce antisemites, seeing traditionalist and religious Jews as the archetype of the 19th century society they opposed.
Alternative Title
20th-century culture
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Geschichte 1900-1985
  • 1900-1999
  • Civilization, Modern > 20th century
  • Modernism (Art)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Civilization, Western
  • Civilisation > 20e siècle
  • Civilisation occidentale
  • Modernisme (Art)
  • Modernisme (Littérature)
  • Civilization, Western
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Kultur
  • Cultuurfilosofie
  • Cultuurgeschiedenis
  • United States > Civilization > 20th century
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [419]-427.
Contents
The nineteenth-century foundations of twentieth-century culture -- Modernism -- Psychoanalysis -- Marxism and the left -- Traditions on the right -- Structuralism, deconstruction, and post-modernism.
ISBN
  • 082040358X
  • 9780820403588
LCCN
87017024
OCLC
  • ocm16277832
  • 16277832
  • SCSB-1895561
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library