Pre-Owned Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century [Paperback] [Aug 10, 2016] John Higgs (Paperback) 1780226578 9781780226576

9781780226576. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Mass-market paperback. Pages: 352. B-format paperback. 352 p. B&w double-page chapter heads. 'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore 'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentialism, chaos mathematics and postmodernism to contend with, the twentieth century, John Higgs argues, cannot fit easily into a traditional historical narrative. Time, then, for a new perspective. Higgs takes us on a refreshingly eclectic journey through the knotty history of the strangest of centuries. In the company of radical artists, scientists, geniuses and eccentrics, he shows us how the elegant, clockwork universe of the Victorians became increasingly woozy and uncertain; and how in the twentieth century we discovered that our world is not just stranger than we imagine, but 'stranger than we can imagine'.