"Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siecle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle epoque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers."-- Read more...

Abstract: "Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siecle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle epoque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers."

"2012年去世的埃里克-霍布斯鲍姆是我们这个时代最杰出和最具原创性的历史学家之一。通过他的作品，他观察到二十世纪资产阶级世纪末文化与无数新运动和意识形态之间的伟大对抗，从共产主义和极端民族主义到达达主义再到信息技术的出现。在《断裂的时代》中，霍布斯鲍姆以其特有的魄力，解读了一个世纪的文化断裂。霍布斯鲍姆审视了既创造了美好时代的花朵，又埋下了其瓦解的种子的条件：家长式资本主义、全球化和大众消费社会的到来。他充满激情，但从不感情用事，他的作品涵盖了古典音乐、美术、摇滚乐和雕塑等不同主题。他记录了 "自由知识分子 "黄金时代的逝去，探索了被遗忘的伟大人物的生活；分析了艺术与极权主义之间的关系；剖析了超现实主义、新艺术、妇女解放和美国牛仔的神话等各种现象。断裂的时代》以完美的想象力和技巧写成，是我们当代最伟大的思想家之一的最后一本书。

摘要："2012年去世的埃里克-霍布斯鲍姆是我们这个时代最杰出、最具原创性的历史学家之一。通过他的作品，他观察到了二十世纪资产阶级世纪末文化与无数新运动和意识形态之间的伟大对抗，从共产主义和极端民族主义到达达主义再到信息技术的出现。在《断裂的时代》中，霍布斯鲍姆以其特有的魄力，解读了一个世纪的文化断裂。霍布斯鲍姆审视了既创造了美好时代的花朵，又埋下了其瓦解的种子的条件：家长式资本主义、全球化和大众消费社会的到来。他充满激情，但从不感情用事，他的作品涵盖了古典音乐、美术、摇滚乐和雕塑等不同主题。他记录了 "自由知识分子 "黄金时代的逝去，探索了被遗忘的伟大人物的生活；分析了艺术与极权主义之间的关系；剖析了超现实主义、新艺术、妇女解放和美国牛仔神话等各种现象。断裂的时代》以完美的想象力和技巧写成，是我们当代最伟大的思想家之一的最后一本书。

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