The Modern Mind_An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction: An Evolution in the Rules of Thought
PART ONE FREUD TO WITTGENSTEIN The Sense of a Beginning
	1 Disturbing the Peace
	2 Half-way House
	3 Darwin’s Heart of Darkness
	4 Les Demoiselles de Modernisme
	5 The Pragmatic Mind of America
	6 E = mc2, ⊃ / ≡ / v + C7H38O43
	7 Ladders of Blood
	8 Volcano
	9 Counter-Attack
PART TWO SPENGLER TO ANIMAL FARM Civilisations and Their Discontents
	10 Eclipse
	11 The Acquisitive Wasteland
	12 Babbitt’s Middletown
	13 Heroes’ Twilight
	14 The Evolution of Evolution
	15 The Golden Age of Physics
	16 Civilisations and Their Discontents
	17 Inquisition
	18 Cold Comfort
	19 Hitler’s Gift
	20 Colossus
	21 No Way Back
	22 Light in August
PART THREE SARTRE TO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY The New Human Condition and The Great Society
	23 Paris in the Year Zero
	24 Daughters and Lovers
	25 The New Human Condition
	26 Cracks in the Canon
	27 Forces of Nature
	28 Mind Minus Metaphysics
	29 Manhattan Transfer
	30 Equality, Freedom, and Justice in the Great Society
	31 La Longue Durée
	32 Heaven and Earth
PART FOUR THE COUNTER-CULTURE TO KOSOVO The View from Nowhere, The View from Everywhere
	33 A New Sensibility
	34 Genetic Safari
	35 The French Collection
	36 Doing Well, and Doing Good
	37 The Wages of Repression
	38 Local Knowledge
	39 ‘The Best Idea, Ever’
	40 The Empire Writes Back
	41 Culture Wars
	42 Deep Order
Conclusion: The Positive Hour
Notes and References
Index of Names, People and Places
Index of Ideas and Subjects
About the Author
Praise for the Modern Mind
Copyright
About the Publisher