Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th CenturyFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it. |
Contents
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The Pragmatic Mind of America | 73 |
Emc²v + C₂H38043 | 90 |
CounterAttack | 167 |
Artists exiled in America German academics in Turkey mathematicians musicians | 358 |
No Way Back | 376 |
Light in August | 392 |
Paris in the Year Zero | 407 |
Daughters and Lovers | 421 |
The New Human Condition | 432 |
Index of Ideas 843 | 441 |
Cracks in the Canon | 450 |
The Acquisitive Wasteland | 186 |
Babbitts Middletown | 206 |
Heroes Twilight | 221 |
The Evolution of Evolution | 245 |
The Golden Age of Physics | 256 |
Civilisations and Their Discontents | 273 |
Inquisition | 300 |
Cold Comfort | 326 |
Index of Names 829 | 344 |
Hitlers Gift | 350 |
Forces of Nature | 471 |
Mind minus Metaphysics | 490 |
Manhattan Transfer | 504 |
Equality Freedom and Justice in the Great Society | 516 |
La Longue Durée | 553 |
Heaven and Earth | 566 |
PART FOUR | 587 |
Genetic Safari | 606 |
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