The Free World
by Louis Menand · first published 2021
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"A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"-- Menand analyzes the economic, demographic, and technological forces that drove social and cultural change in US during the twenty years following the end of the Second World War. Introducing us to the personalities at the center of this transformation-- artists and thinkers both in the US and abroad-- he shows how they exerted a powerful influence on postwar art and thought. It was an exciting period of creative innovation and intellectual debate, and it gave birth to the United
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Louis Menand's The Free World, a history of public thought in the cold war era, recently taught me about the relationship of the masses and totalitarianism. The relationship appears to be : destroy classes & traditional relationships…
on “Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)” ↗I first thought that the book itself was titled The Opportunists, but that's just the title of the book review; the book is called The Free World. Although it sounds like the book is fairly critical of many of its subjects, I doubt either Louis Menand or Mark Greif specifically meant to sum up Hannah Arendt's work as opportunism. The closest to…
on “The Opportunists” ↗