Sunday, January 03, 2016

John Higgs - Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the 20th Century

Chewed through this during recent trip. Enjoyable skate through some of the biggest ideas - of various kinds - to have shaped the century and does a good job of both organising them into sensible chapters and highlighting both expected and less obvious connections: relativity, modernism, war, individualism, id, uncertainty, science fiction, nihilism, space, sex, teenagers, chaos, growth, postmodernism, network.