Modern Mind An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Name: Modern Mind An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
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ISBN: 9780060194130

ISBN-10: 0060194138

ISBN-13: 9780060194130

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter Watson

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From 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.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/6/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 864
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.84" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English

Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, journalist, and the author of thirteen books, including The German Genius, The Medici Conspiracy, and The Great Divide. He has written for The Sunday Times, The New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator. He lives in London.



Preface


Introduction: an Evolution in the Rules of Thought



Freud to Wittgenstein: The Sense of a Beginning



Disturbing the Peace



Half-way House



Darwin's Heart of Darkness



Les Demoiselles de Modernisme



The Pragmatic Mind of America



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Ladders of Blood



Volcano



Counter-Attack



Spengler to Animal Farm: Civilisations and Their Discontents



Eclipse



The Acquisitive Wasteland



Babbitt's Middletown



Heroes' Twilight



The Evolution of Evolution



The Golden Age of Physics



Civilisations and Their Discontents



Inquisition



Cold Comfort



Hitler's Gift



Colossus



No Way Back



Light in August



Sartre to the Sea of Tranquility: The New Human Condition and The Great Society



Paris in the Year Zero



Daughters and Lovers



The New Human Condition



Cracks in the Canon



Forces of Nature



Mind minus Metaphysics



Manhattan Transfer



Equality, Freedom, and Justice in the Great Society



La Longue Duree



Heaven and Earth



The Counter-Culture to Kosovo: The View From Nowhere, The View From Everywhere



A New Sensibility



Genetic Safari



The French Collection



Doing Well, and Doing Good



The Wages of Repression



Local Knowledge



'The Best Idea, Ever'



The Empire Writes Back



Culture Wars



Deep Order


Conclusion: The Positive Hour


Notes and References


Index of Names


Index of Ideas