Modern Industrial Discussions| Outline Ch.6 Hoffman's "The Twenties" | | "The Twenties" by Frederick Hoffman"
Ch. 6 Hoffman:Science and the “Precious Object”I. The Problem
a. “The ‘dilemna of modern youth,’ said Krutch, as he surveyed the postwar decade, was a consequence of our no longer being able to sustain either an unreasonable faith or a rational doubt. For the most part, science has been responsible for this sharp division between feeling and thought ” (Hoff 275) Unlike the past where man turned to myth and religion for meaning, man was now putting their trust in science instead. “We have discovered that faith does not come from knowledge, that knowledge is more likely to destroy faith or to make its exercise all but impossible.” (Hoff 276)
b. “As for literature, Krutch maintained that is was no longer possible to write genuine tragedy. Great tragedy requires a certain naïve faith in the nobility of man and in the genuineness of his suffering, a willingness to suspend current fashions in disbelief and to entertain the illusion that man can act heroically.” (Hoff 276). “Aesthetic principles cannot give society the stability it needs ‘because, though the human mind may be made to work in accordance with them, external nature will not, and... | |
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