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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

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