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Author: Joseph Wood Krutch

📘 The modern temper by Joseph Wood Krutch

A 1920s American treatise by Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper critiques the societal transformation from harmonious to discordant art, embodied by figures such as Picasso. It explores the perceived loss of human soul and identity in a rapidly modernizing world driven by technology, science, and emerging ideologies. The work challenges readers to confront the implications of this shift for faith, meaning, and personal purpose.

First publish date: 1929

Genre: Philosophy/Metaphysics

Authors: Joseph Wood Krutch

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