The Intellectuals And The Masses: Pride And Prejudice Among The Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 by John Carey

The Intellectuals And The Masses: Pride And Prejudice Among The Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939

John Carey

246 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
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A critic of the founders of modern culture shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the "masses" as semihuman swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema and ripe for extermination, relating this revulsion to Nietzsche's Super...

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