Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 249 pages. Science had explained the world and, in the explaining, emptied it. By 1929 the educated mind could account for the body, the emotions, even love and grief -- and found, in the accounting, that the things it most valued had no standing in the universe that science described. Published in January 1929, months before the Crash that ended the decade's prosperity, Joseph Wood Krutch's The Modern Temper: A Study and a Confession became the defining diagnosis of that crisis: a clear-eyed reckoning of what the modern mind had gained in knowledge and forfeited in meaning. Krutch's incisive examination of the dilemmas faced by modern man has proved remarkably prophetic. This book stands as an unflinchingly honest examination of the major moral questions of our era. Clean copy.
