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The Free World - Louis Menand

The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
880 Seiten
2022
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-712688-0 (ISBN)
CHF 26,15 inkl. MwSt
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022




Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction



The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.


In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic.


How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of ‘freedom’ applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and the post-war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism.


He also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and thought, revealing how America’s once neglected culture became respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book offers a masterly account of the main characters and minor figures who played part in shaping the post-war world of art and thought.

Louis Menand is Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books include The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-00-712688-3 / 0007126883
ISBN-13 978-0-00-712688-0 / 9780007126880
Zustand Neuware
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