Seminar Notes 'John Carey'

Notes from seminar discussion on 'The Intellectuals and the masses'

- Modernism, Alienate the masses.
- Virgin Woolf, T. S Elliot, Yeats, Nietzche
- He argues 'The principle around which modernist literature and culutre fashioned themeselves was the exlusion of the masses, the deafeat of their power and the removal of their literacy, the denial of their humanity.
- Appears to be rivalry between 'John' and 'Nietzche' he wrote that 'declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed' and who encouraged intellectuals everywhere to lord/ rule
- Masses are bacteria, plague or virus. Masses are not alive, behaved like savages in large crowds
- Avant Garde techniques
- Link to James Joyce: through the character of bloom.
- Rise of mass democracy and universal education artist and intellectuals reacted wtih fear to this phenomen and both derigrated the ordinary person
- Made art more difficult to understand
- Link to Adolf Hitler, Hilter believed in intellectual hierachy, in the great art.
- Superman
- prune society
- God lived in most Germans
- The masses did not exist
- Daily mail link