Fractured times : culture and society in the twentieth century / Eric Hobsbawm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303) and index.

Manifestos -- p. 1. The predicament of 'high culture' today -- Where are the arts going? -- A century of cultural symbiosis? -- Why hold festivals in the twenty-first century? -- Politics and culture in the new century -- p. 2. The culture of the bourgeois world -- Enlightenment and achievement : the emancipation of jewish talent since 1800 -- The jews and Germany -- Mitteleuropean destinies -- Culture and gender in european bourgeois society 1870-1914 -- Art nouveau -- The last days of mankind -- Heritage -- p. 3. Uncertainties, science, religion -- Worrying about the future -- Science : social function and world change -- Mandarin in a phrygian cap : Joseph Needham -- The intellectuals : role, funciton and paradox -- The prospect of public religion -- Art and revolution -- Art and power -- The avant-garde fails -- p. 4. Form art to myth -- Pop goes the artist : our exploding culture -- The american cowboy : an international myth?