After Everything: Western Intellectual History Since 1945
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In the fractured, uncertain decades following the Second World War, Western thought embarked on one of its most turbulent and transformative journeys — and Roland N. Stromberg's After Everything stands as a masterful guide through that intellectual landscape. The book chronicles the sweeping currents of Western intellectual history from 1945 onward, surveying the rise and fall of ideologies, the upheavals in philosophy, literature, science, and politics, and the profound crisis of meaning that came to define the postwar era. Stromberg presents a world grappling with the ruins of old certainties — from the collapse of Enlightenment optimism to the emergence of existentialism, structuralism, and the New Left — with clarity, authority, and a commanding breadth of knowledge. Stromberg's analytical style is both accessible and rigorous, synthesising an extraordinary range of thinkers, movements, and cultural shifts into a coherent and compelling narrative. He argues that the postwar decades represent not merely a continuation of prior intellectual traditions, but a fundamental rupture — a moment when Western civilisation was forced to reimagine its very foundations. His prose carries the weight of a scholar deeply attuned to the ironies and contradictions of modern thought, making After Everything an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived at the intellectual world we now inhabit. What ideas survived the wreckage of the twentieth century — and which ones quietly took their place?
Author: Roland N. Stromberg
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the fractured, uncertain decades following the Second World War, Western thought embarked on one of its most turbulent and transformative journeys — and Roland N. Stromberg's After Everything stands as a masterful guide through that intellectual landscape. The book chronicles the sweeping currents of Western intellectual history from 1945 onward, surveying the rise and fall of ideologies, the upheavals in philosophy, literature, science, and politics, and the profound crisis of meaning that came to define the postwar era. Stromberg presents a world grappling with the ruins of old certainties — from the collapse of Enlightenment optimism to the emergence of existentialism, structuralism, and the New Left — with clarity, authority, and a commanding breadth of knowledge. Stromberg's analytical style is both accessible and rigorous, synthesising an extraordinary range of thinkers, movements, and cultural shifts into a coherent and compelling narrative. He argues that the postwar decades represent not merely a continuation of prior intellectual traditions, but a fundamental rupture — a moment when Western civilisation was forced to reimagine its very foundations. His prose carries the weight of a scholar deeply attuned to the ironies and contradictions of modern thought, making After Everything an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived at the intellectual world we now inhabit. What ideas survived the wreckage of the twentieth century — and which ones quietly took their place?