Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

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

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PRAISE FOR THE MODERN MIND

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