This class is just under an hour. I want to look at the debate in the early 20th century over what is called modernism. And how these debates are going to work into some of the anxieties we have been talking about really all semester about the rise of modern america and spilling over into the postwar years. To start with, lets look at some quotes from people we have heard from before in the semester to reestablish what the progressive itosethos was. Walter lippman, 1914. He says we can no longer treat life as something that will trickle down to us. We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its social organization, formulate its methods, educate and control it. A classic progressive era approach. Jane adams. Our friend jane adams. She writes, life in the settlement discovers above all it has been called the extraordinary pliability of human nature. A phrase she probably got from john stuart mill. And it seems impossible to set any bounds to any ideal deal to the moral capability that
He turned it into his editor who simply refuse to print it. He said i own the paper. He said why . If i print this editorial there will not be a brick left in this building tomorrow. I was wondering, there is a lot of controversy over reconstruction and amnesty in the congress. Did you look at beyond Andrew Johnson, the more deeply into the way the members of congress, and how that their reaction . Martha i have a chapter in the book called glee. The confederates and the copperheads. I have a few pages at the end where i write about the responses of the radical republicans in congress. I only have a few pieces of evidence. In these diary entries, the radical republicans expressed a certain relief that lincoln had been assassinated. They worry they were going to treat the confederacy with too much leniency. It is at the end of the chapter print one of the members of congress wrote down in his diary he was disgusted by how his comrades seem so relieved lincoln had been assassinated. What
Now the 20th century, and not to copy what the greeks saw and felt in art over 2000 years ago. Here is the key line, above all the great thing is to express oneself. The reporter, i thought of a celebrated canvas matisse once produced of blue tomatoes. Why blue, he was asked . Because i see them that way and i cannot help it if no one else does. This interview goes on and on. For matisse, we see how the modern artist is less impressed with copying the forms and techniques from previous generations. We see how the new artists are creating greater premium on the emotional power of the work. They sought some deeper emotional relationship to their work, to achieve an emotional fulfillment through their work. Whether or not the end result looks like the subject mattered less and less. Theyre using their art to access something within. Does that sound like freud . I think it does. Coming after the powerful realist movement, realism approximately 1850 to the late 1880s into the 1890s, the rea
The life substance of the companion world in cyberspace. Mind and invasive expedition in the name of commerce or government surveillance. For the use of corporations, and Excited Police departments, you can call it quantify indication. It in the out of we called it reification. Kind of dehumanizing and so it turns out that the story for all of this, oddly enough, is the eviction story from the bronze age telling of the consequences coming from eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. So like all world, it comes with the heaven and the hell. What does u this mean for all of us in this room . We writers and our publishers . We dont want to give up the presumably inconvenient thing we do. Something as old as paginated written narrative. We dont want to lose heart in frank norris, the author of naturalistic works of fiction in the 60s. Norris despaired of the Western Union telegram. Ten words and stop. The twitter of today. He feared it was the end of literary discourse. People could
Im talking with David Steinberger about a companion book to knowing your value which is my second book which is great for women. Were looking for a knowing your value millennial edition. So hopefully, ill be back next year. Ladies and gentlemen, mika bear zip sky. Good evening. Hows everyone tonight . The beautiful. Im Mika Brzezinski, cohost of morning joe, and im deeply honored to be here tonight. Im also very excited to say this to you uninterrupted. Welcome to the 64th National Book awards. I got through it. Its the oscars of the book world, or as Fran Leibowitz once called them, the oscars without money. But well take em. [laughter] so i have a very close connection to this evenings awards. Just last month we had the honor of having David Steinberger, the chairman of the National Book foundation, on our show, on morning joe, to announce the National Book foundation finalists. As a threetime author myself, i know firsthand what an incredible undertaking it is to write a book and th