STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE An Alternative History of the 20Th Century by Higgs, John - 2015

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Signal, Toronto, 2015. First hardcover edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket, book has light corner bumps, dust jacket has edge wear and spine creasing, light nicks at top edges.In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism.In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, Higgs shows us, we need to shift the framework of our interpretation and view these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative. Instead of looking at it as another step forward in a stable path, we need to look at the twentieth century as a chaotic seismic shift, upending all linear narratives.Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century "about… Read More

Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 077103847X . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 341 pages; "This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture. Its cast includes well-known geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, and Pablo Picasso, lesser known geniuses like Edward Lorenz, Sergey Korolyov, or Shigeru Miyamoto, and infamous but influential ne'er-do-wells like Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley and Keith Richards. In this company we take a tour through ideas as strange as general relativity, DNA, the subconscious, Gaia theory, and Dada. In this brilliantly written and original book, John Higgs explores, with great clarity and wit, the extremes of twentieth century thought, and in doing so shows how a world of empires became a… Read More