"Georg Brandes Main Currents became a kind of business card, or a letter of introduction, allowing Brandes to enter numerous national public spheres. Around 1900, he was, indeed, one of Europes leading intellectuals, both as a scholar, a cultural critic, and a political activist. It is one of those books creating a swallowing gulf between yesterday and today, Henrik Ibsen wrote to Georg Brandes from Dresden, in 1872, upon reading the first tome of Main Currents.
Due to the many agendas and layers, the impact of the work is...
"Georg Brandes Main Currents became a kind of business card, or a letter of introduction, allowing Brandes to enter num...
