ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together the notion of prophecy from the margins that were discussed in Chapter 30 with the shattering effect of the First World War on European culture. It recounts the rise of an intellectual avant-garde and traces the general effects of the pessimism that this group cultivated. It highlights especially the work of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), Oswald Spengler (1885–1936), Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), and William Butler Yeats (1865–1939).
