Modern Times, Modern Places

In the 737-page tome Modern Times, Modern Places, Oxford don, literary critic and novelist Peter Conrad gives an exhaustive and highly erudite critique of social values in all areas of Western arts and culture from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century. He analyzes changes in the fine arts, literature, poetry, architecture, music, opera, film, and dance as well as explaining the changes in science and technology in this time and the effects of these changes in the world of arts and culture. He succinctly describes the past and present states of current thinking in economics, psychology (psychoanalysis), physics, philosophy, linguistics, literary theories, mathematics, engineering, the natural and physical sciences and robotics.