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The Intellectual Response to the First World War: How the Conflict Impacted on Ideas, Methods and Fields of Enquiry
Marysa Demoor (Ed.)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Demoor, Marysa; Posman, Sarah. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The First World War changed the dynamics of the European intellectual landscape in terms of international collaboration, the development of disciplines and new institutional visions. The conflict not only destroyed much of Europe's material cultural heritage, it also damaged the 19th-century humanist conception of the function of thought and problematised the position of the thinker in society. What is the intellectuals task in a time of destruction and death? This book spotlights the ways in which the war redrew the map of knowledge production and changed traditional paradigms, fundamentally altering the approach to intellectual work. Thinking became more democratic and ... Read more
The First World War changed the dynamics of the European intellectual landscape in terms of international collaboration, the development of disciplines and new institutional visions. The conflict not only destroyed much of Europe's material cultural heritage, it also damaged the 19th-century humanist conception of the function of thought and problematised the position of the thinker in society. What is the intellectuals task in a time of destruction and death? This book spotlights the ways in which the war redrew the map of knowledge production and changed traditional paradigms, fundamentally altering the approach to intellectual work. Thinking became more democratic and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198244
SKU
V9781845198244
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99-50
About Marysa Demoor (Ed.)
Marysa Demoor, full Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, has published widely on nineteenth-century culture and journalism. Her current research focuses on the cross-fertilization between Belgium and Britain in the long nineteenth century. Sarah Posman is a postdoctoral researcher (FWO) at Ghent University. She has co-edited The Aesthetics of Matter (2013) and Gertrude Stein in Europe (2015). Cedric Van ... Read more
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