Ideas Matter: Culture Wars: then and now, episode 5: ‘The crisis of bourgeois ideology’

This lecture on the crisis of bourgeois ideology, from Nietzsche
to Heidegger, is a pre-history of today’s culture wars. It
explores the broad sweep and trajectory of modernist culture,
from the mid nineteenth century through to the interwar years of
the 20th century.


LECTURER Dr Tim Black, books and essays editor, Spiked.


TALKING POINTS IN THIS PODCAST


Why growing disillusion of Europe’s bourgeois intellectual
elite with the values of progress, liberalism and democracy that
had been so important in bringing meaning to society.

The crisis of meaning that fed the Great War as a vitalistic
renewal of the German state and the disenchanted bourgeois world
of the Anglo-French axis.

Societal insecurity in Europe after WWI and fatal break by
intellectuals with the moralistic guises of the pre-war view of
the world and enter a deep mode of self-questioning.



BIBLIOGRAPHY


Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern
Age, Modris Eksteins, Houghton Mifflin, 1999

The Destruction of Reason, Georg Lukács , 1962 (republished
Aakar Books, 2016)

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions
of European High Culture, Robert B Pippin, Wiley-Blackwell, 1999



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