The twentieth century was like a
roller-coaster ride at amazing speed! Early in the century, European thought took
a curve … towards a ‘subjective’ turn. It covered an entire spectrum – in
philosophy, psychology, literature, arts. The pioneers are only too well-known.
Just to mention a few names, Kierkegaard, Henri Bergson, later Virginia Woolf,
Freud, the cubist experience. Even sciences such as physics and biology started
to make a new order of discoveries, which made the former reductionist method
of enquiry gradually redundant. There followed the rise and slowing down of the
communist/Marxist ideology and movement.
The two World Wars, coming fairly close to each
other, led to the ‘angst’ of the existentialist period. As was inevitable!
There was no meaning and purpose of life. Writers and philosophers were
prolific and they dominated the mentality of the generation in quite a
remarkable manner.
From that ground, there arose two powerful
movements that swept the wor...
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