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xStranger than our imagination
Author's name: John Higgs
One century brought together relativity and cubist art, the two world wars and the mathematics of chaos, to end up with our current mysterious world?
In this extraordinary and captivating intellectual journey, author John Higgs delves into the most influential and perplexing century of all: the 20th. This is not a conventional historical account of events and wars, but rather a search for the subtle and astonishing connections between the simultaneous revolutions in thought, art, and science. How did the two world wars influence existential philosophy? How did the concepts of "relativity" and "chaos" in mathematics resonate in literature and the visual arts? Higgs seamlessly and profoundly weaves these threads together, offering an illuminating perspective that makes this complex century both comprehensible and breathtaking.
This book is a fascinating journey through a crucible of turbulent transformations, from the genius of new art forms and the influences of postmodernism to the scientific and philosophical foundations that have shaped our modern consciousness. It is aimed at lovers of cultural and philosophical history, and at any reader trying to understand the complex world we live in today—a world of surveillance and boundless opportunity, whose intellectual roots are as strange as Sir Arthur Eddington described them: "Stranger than the horizons of our imagination!"
Would we have reached where we are now without the intellectual storm that this era generated? Discover the answer in a work that promises to change your view of the past, and therefore of our strange present.
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