The Morbid Age av Richard Overy

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<p><b>Richard Overy''s <i>The Morbid Age </i>opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.</b><br><br> British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration.<br><br> Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction,<i> The Morbid Age</i> reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. <br><b