Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Prologue: Europeans, 1930; 1 Thomas Mann: The Uncanny and Its Power; 2 Virginia Woolf: Transcending; 3 José Ortega y Gasset: Rethinking the West; 4 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: Rethinking Theatre, Remaking Opera; 5 L'âme noir: The Black Soul in the City of Light; 6 L.H.O.O.Q.: Painting in 1930; 7 Aldous Huxley: Fearing the Future; 8 Sigmund Freud: The Fragility of Civilization; 9 Yesterday and Today; Epilogue: Europeans Today; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliographical Notes; Additional Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F
GH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
"Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period."-- From publisher's website
