Achieving Disunity
Corey Robin, 25 October 2012
Age of Fracture
by Daniel Rodgers.
Harvard, 360 pp., £14.95, September 2012,978 0 674 06436 2 Show More
by Daniel Rodgers.
Harvard, 360 pp., £14.95, September 2012,
“... simply as the way of the world but as the very condition of knowledge. The intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers calls this the Age of Fracture, noting the tendency among intellectuals of the last four decades to replace ‘strong readings of society’ with ‘weaker ones’. Between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th, he argues, ‘social thinkers ... ”