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The intellectuals and the masses
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- Book Synopsis
- Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.
- About The Author
- John Carey was an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding. He died in December 2025.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571169269
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (01 October 1992)
- Number of Pages
- 246
- Weight
- 205 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 126 x 16 mm
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