- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780141003252
- Length: 544 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 130mm
- Weight: 368g
- Price: £16.99
The Morbid Age
Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939
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British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The Morbid Age opens a window on to this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was facing a possibly terminal crisis of civilization. Ultimately, Overy shows, the coming of war was almost welcomed as a way to resolve the contradictions and anxieties of this period, a war in which it was believed civilization would be either saved or utterly destroyed.
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- Paperback 2010
- Ebook 2009