Crazy Twentieth Century

Title: Crazy Twentieth Century

Author: M. Heirman

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789052403045

Condition: Good

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Description:
The twentieth century was a violent century. There was the First World War and the October Revolution, Hitler and Stalin, the Second World War and the Chinese Revolution, Auschwitz and other (attempted) genocides. The twentieth century was also the century of the Cold War and the arms race. But there were also the miracle years of 1968 and 1989. Nevertheless, Europe returned to the city where it all began in 1914: Sarajevo. The twentieth century has already claimed at least 100 million victims. Last year alone, war was waged in fifty countries around the world. At first glance, it seems the most insane century since the fourteenth century that Barbara Tuchman described so compellingly. Mark Heirman exposes its main features in his book. He discusses the struggle for and against democracy and modernity, the rivalry between liberal and socialist democracy, the permanent tension between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and the different starting points of the political revolutions of the 18th century, the social revolutions of the 19th century, and the cultural revolutions of the 20th century.
The author sees other contradictions: the breakthrough of the European model and its ultimate rejection or the triumph of secularization and the return of religion. They are all attempts to save this century, which had the ambition to improve man and the world, from madness. Despite all the violence, the twentieth century also means the greatest step that humanity has ever taken on the road to a more humane and peaceful world.