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The Alienation Effect

- How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century
Af: Owen Hatherley Engelsk Hardback

The Alienation Effect

- How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century
Af: Owen Hatherley Engelsk Hardback
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Britain. Made in Europe.

In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever.

Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an ‘alienation effect’, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too.
Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the émigrés all around us – many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash – and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.

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Britain. Made in Europe.

In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever.

Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an ‘alienation effect’, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too.
Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the émigrés all around us – many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash – and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 608
ISBN-13: 9780241378205
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0241378206
Kategori: Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie
Udg. Dato: 27 mar 2025
Længde: 41mm
Bredde: 166mm
Højde: 242mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 27 mar 2025
Forfatter(e): Owen Hatherley
Forfatter(e) Owen Hatherley

Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie

ISBN-13 9780241378205

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 608

Udgave

Længde 41mm

Bredde 166mm

Højde 242mm

Udg. Dato 27 mar 2025

Oplagsdato 27 mar 2025

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd