Modern Mind

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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.

Preface

Introduction: an Evolution in the Rules of Thought

(10)

PART ONE FREUD TO WITTGENSTEIN The Sense of a Beginning

Disturbing the Peace

(15)

The Unconscious Unveiled

Europe's Mother Civilisation

the gene rediscovered

Max Planck's Quantum

Picasso in Paris

Half-way House

(13)

German pre-eminence in thought

Vienna's cafes a market for ideas

Schnitzler and von Hofmannsthal

Brentano and Husserl

Krafft - Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis

Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos

Weininger and Klimt

Ernst Mach

Darwin's Heart of Darkness

(13)

Nietzsche

Veblen

Spencer

Haeckel

Lapouge's `racial disaster'

Ratzel's `Lebensraum'

Houston Chamberlain

Nordau's `egeneration'

Galton's eugenics

Herzl's Zionism

Weber's Protestant Ethic

Conrad's Africa

Les Demoiselles de Modernisme

(21)

Strauss's Salome and Elektra

Schoenberg's Ewartung

Picasso's whores

Kandinsky's abstractions

Bergson's elan vital

Pascendi Dominici Gregis

the new learning in China

The Pragmatic Mind of America

(17)

University life

Charles Eliot

Peirce, James and the Pragmatic school of philosophy

John Dewey

Harvard Business School

Taylor's Scientific Management

Hofstadter and the practical culture of America

Sullivan and the skyscraper

Kill Devil Hill

the Ashcan School

The Great Train Robbery

D. W. Griffith

Mary Pickford

E = mc2, /≡/v+C7H38O43

(18)

Rutherford's atom

Einstein's relativity

Baekeland's awkward resin

Russell and Whitehead

adrenaline

Ehrlich's magic bullet

Ladders of Blood

108

(18)

W. E. B. Du Bois and Souls of Black Folk

the NAACP

The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition

T. H. Morgan and the fruitfly

Franz Boas and The Mind of Primitive Man

Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu

Wegener's continental drift

Volcano

126

(18)

The Armory Show

the Sonderbund

Apollinaire's Alcools and `Zone'

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Diaghilev and Nijinsky

Einstein's special theory

Niels Bohr's orbits

Death in Venice

Sons and Lovers

Proust

Jung's break with Freud

Robert Frost

Counter - Attack

144

(27)

The intellectual consequences of war

plastic surgery

blood grouping and transfusion

the concept of the IQ

the Americanisation of the IQ

psychoanalysis achieves respectability

the war poets

the `versus' habit

spiritualism

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus

Dada in Zurich

artists of the Russian Revolution

PART TWO SPENGLER TO ANIMAL FARM Civilisations and Their Discontents

Eclipse

171

(15)

Spengler's Decline of the West

Versailles

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

May 4 in China

George Lukacs's Sunday Circle

Bartok's Bluebeard

Eddington at Principe

The Acquisitive Wasteland

186

(20)

Tawney's bitter vision

Eliot's Waste Land

Pirandello's bleak stage

Karl Kraus's Last Days

Joyce's Bloom

Yeats

Gatsby's many wastelands

Proust, again

Gide's moral wasteland

Jacob's Room

Breton's unconscious murmur

Ernst and Dali's biological wasteland

Magritte

Babbitt's Middletown

206

(15)

IQ and race

the Scopes's trial

Babbitt

the concept of the `middlebrow'

Middletown

the Harlem renaissance

The New Yorker

birth of the BBC

Heroes' Twilight

221

(24)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

the Warburg Institute

the Bauhaus

the Frankfurt School

`secret' Germany

Rilke

The Magic Mountain

serialism

Brecht

Heidegger

History and Class Consciousness

the Vienna Circle

Robert Musil

Kafka

Hitler and the intellectual origins of the Third Reich

The Evolution of Evolution

245

(11)

The idea of progress

the Tomb of Tutankhamen

Leonard Woolley and Sumer

the Flood and the First Library

Ras Shamra and the evolution of EI

tree - ring dating

Whig history

The Golden Age of Physics

256

(17)

Rutherford `splits' the atom

Bohr links physics and chemistry

Pauli's exclusion principle

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

Schrodinger's waves

Chadwick and the neutron

Hubble's expanding universe

Pauling's chemical bond

Whittle and Von Ohain's jet

Godel's theorem

Civilisations and Their Discontents

273

(27)

Freud and the health of the West

Jung's modern man

Horney's `neurotic personality'

A Room of One's Own

Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict's anthropology

Chicago sociology

The Negro in American Civilisation

Faulkner's South

Orwell's Paris, London and Wigan

Mumford's cities

Dean Inge v. Bertrand Russesll

The Revolt of the Masses

the Webbs in Russia

Rosenberg's `Myth'

Huxley's `new' world

Inquisition

300

(26)

Blacklist of artists in Germany

paintings seized

Einstein's persecution

campaigns against von Frisch, the Bauhaus, the Warburg Institute, the Frankfurt School

Vienna Circle exiled

attacks on Freud and Hannah Arendt

Karl Lorenz's work for the Nazis

Himmler's `science'

the exhibition of Degenerate Art

the philosophy, courage and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

nationalisation of arts and sciences in Soviet Russia

the role of Maxim Gorky

Red professors

the persecution of Nikolai Vavilov

Lysenko

the purge of scientists

the KGB literary archive

the death of Osip Mandelstam

Cold Comfort

326

(24)

Talking pictures

Goebbels and Riefenstahl

`The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction'

CIAM

Auden and his generation

writers in the Spanish Civil War

Picasso's Guernica

Penguin Books

Fiction and the Reading Public

Keynes's theory of employment and money

Cole Porter

cellophane and nylon

Eugene O'Neill

On Native Grounds

Citizen Kane

Hitler's Gift

350

(11)

Artists exiled in America

German academics in Turkey

mathematicians, musicians and psychologists flee to the U.S

Varian Fry and the ERC

the University in Exile

Mondrian's New York paintings

Schoenberg (and others) in Los Angeles

Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine

Colossus

361

(15)

Alan Turing, Enigma and ENIAC

radar

penicillin

the caves at Lascaux

the evolutionary synthesis

Schrodinger's `What is Life?'

No Way Back

376

(16)

Karl Mannheim

Joseph Schumpeter

Friedrich von Hayek

Karl Popper

`Christianity and the Social Order'

the Beveridge Report

Animal Farm

Keynes and the war

Bretton Woods and the peace

An American Dilemma

Light in August

392

(15)

A nuclear chain reaction becomes possible

Enrico Fermi

nuclear fission

the Manhattan Project

the meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr

German, Russian and Japanese plans for a bomb

Hiroshima

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

PART THREE SARTRE TO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY The New Human Condition and The Great Society

Paris in the Year Zero

407

(14)

Sartre

Ritzkrieg

Merleau - Ponty

Aragon

the Left Bank

Kravchenko

Messaren

the Paris School of painters

Camus

Genet

Beckett

Ionesco

Daughters and Lovers

421

(11)

Simone de Beauvoir

the Kinsey Report

Masters and Johnson

Gregory Pincus and the contraceptive pill

Nabokov's Lolita

Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

The New Human Condition

432

(18)

The Lonely Crowd

The Authoritarian Personality

Hannah Arendt

Erich Fromm's Sane Society

Organisation Man

C. Wright Mills

Galbraith's Affluent Society

W. W. Rostow

Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders

Daniel Bell's End of Ideology

The Rise of the Meritocracy

Cracks in the Canon

450

(21)

Eliot's Definition of Culture

F. R. Leavis

Lionel Trilling

The American Mind

Ginsberg's Howl

Kerouac's On the Road

the new pop

James Baldwin

Things Fall Apart

Levi - Strauss

John Osborne

The Movement and Philip Larkin

The Uses of Literacy

Raymond Williams

Snow's Two Cultures

Forces of Nature

471

(19)

Michael Polanyi

1984

Lysenko, again

Shockley and the transistor

Waston, Crick and DNA

Korolev and Sputnik

Louis and Mary Leakey and Zinjanthropus

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Mind minus Metaphysics

490

(14)

Psycho

The Divided Self

Gilbert Ryle

Wittgenstein

The failures of psychoanalysis

Skinner v. Chomsky

Maternal deprivation

Piaget

tranquilisers

Herbert Marcuse

Manhattan Transfer

504

(12)

Eichmann in Jerusalem

refugee analysts in America

Bruno Bettelheim

Erik Erikson

physicists in America: Gamow, Gell-Mann and quarks

Andy Warhol

The Last Avant - Garde

Sontag's `Against Interpretation'

Equality, Freedom, and Justice in the Great Society

516

(37)

The Condition of Liberty (Hayck)

Milton Friedman

The Other America

Jane Jacobs

Martin Luther King

the Civil Rights campaign

Frantz Fanon

Eldridge Cleaver

Maya Angelou

Germaine Greer

Juliet Mitchell

Kate Millett

Shere Hite

the Coleman Report

Arthur Jensen

Christopher Jencks

Deschooling Society

One - Dimensional Man

Norman Mailer

China's Cultural Revolution

madness in Russia

Solzhenitsyn

Isaiah Berlin on liberty

Marshall McLuhan

Guy Debord

Rawls's Theory of Justice

Robert Nozick on anarchy

Skinner on Freedom and Dignity

La Longue Duree

553

(13)

Seafloor spreading and tectonic plates

the Beringia conference

Basil Davidson's Old Africa

Ferdinand Braudel and the Annales school

the British Marxist historians

Renfrew's radiocarbon revolution

Heaven and Earth

566

(23)

The moon landing

pulsars and background radiation

The First Three Minutes

quasars

The Bible and Archaeology

Paul Tillich

Rudolf Bultmann

Teilhard de Chardin

Reinhald Niebuhr

Vatican II

Rachel Carson

The Limits to Growth

The Greening of America

Small is Beautiful

PART FOUR THE COUNTER - CULTURE TO KOSOVO The View From Nowhere, The View From Everywhere

A New Sensibility

589

(17)

The Oil Crisis

The New Industrial State

Post - Industrial Society and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Roszak's Counter - culture

Zen and Motorcycles

Tom Wolfe's Acid Test

The Me Decade

the Narcissism of Professor Lasch

Religion and the Decline of Magic

The World Turned Upside Down

Genetic Safari

606

(15)

Ethology

African Genesis

three women in Africa

The Serengeti Lion

snow leopards and elephants

`Lucy' and Laetoli

Fred Sanger's two Nobel prizes

Genentech

Jacques Monod

Sociobiology

Dawkins's mathematics of the jungle

The French Collection

621

(23)

Galerie Beaubourg

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

IRCAM and Pierre Boulez

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Jacques Lacan

Michel Foucault

Piaget's Structuralism

Jacques Derrida

Louis Althusser

Jurgen Habermas

Roland Barthes

Robert Bresson

Jacques Tati

Francois Truffaut

Jean - Lac Godard

Peter Brook's CIRT

Doing Well, and Doing Good

644

(13)

Taking Rights Seriously

Free to Choose

the Solow Residual

New Growth Theory

the famines of Amartya Sen

The Culture of Contentment

Losing Ground

America's enduring race problem

The Wages of Repression

657

(10)

AIDS

beta - blockers

immunosuppressants

heart transplants

oncogenes

Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor

AIDS and the arts

the attack on psychoanalysis

the attack on Margaret Mead

Local Knowledge

667

(15)

Lyotard's Postmodern Condition

the philosophy of Richard Rorty

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions

Clifford Geertz

Hilary Putnam

Willard van Quine

Relative Rationality

David Harvey's ephemeral truths

`The Best Idea, Ever'

682

(22)

Genetic fingerprints

the origins of life

Lynn Margulis's eukaryotes

the K/T boundary

the death of the dinosaurs

Turkana Boy

mitochondrial DNA

the `mother tongue'

the neo - Darwinists and their family quarrels

The Bell Curve

the Human Genome Project

Consciousness studies

The Empire Writes Back

704

(17)

Non-fiction v. fiction

U. S. English v. U. K. English

English as a Global Language

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker

Vargas Llosa

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

R. K. Narayan

Anita Desai

Salman Rushdie

V. S. Naipaul

Satyajit Ray

Wole Soyinka

Edward Said's Orientalism

Gayatri Spivak's Subaltern Studies

The Political Unconscious

Political Shakespeare

David Mamet

John Updike

Saul Bellow

Approaches to American Indian Texts

Culture Wars

721

(16)

The Closing of the American Mind

The Western Canon

the counter - attack

Black Athena

the counter - attack

Enola Gay and the counter - attack

cultural politics on campus

Cultivating Humanity

Great Books today

Gertrude Himmelfarb's warning

Deep Order

737

(14)

The Internet

its history

the singularity of Stephen Hawking

black holes

The Birth of the Universe

wormholes

the anthropic universe

string theory

chaoplexity

artificial life

the deep order of mathematics, even in biology

morphomatics

Conclusion: The Positive Hour

751

(22)

Notes and References

773

(56)

Index of Names

829

(14)

Index of Ideas

843

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