Age of the Crisis of Man

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "e;nature of man."e; But the dawning "e;age of the crisis of man,"e; as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curi...