The modern mind : an intellectual history of the 20th century / Peter Watson.

By:

Watson, Peter, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Perennial, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.Edition: 1st Perennial edDescription: xiv, 847 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

0060084383 (pbk.)
9780060084387 (pbk.)

Other title:

Intellectual history of the 20th century

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

909.82

LOC classification:

CB 427 W341m 2002

Contents:

Preface Introduction: an evolution in the rules of thought Part one. Freud to Wittgenstein: The sense of a beginning : Disturbing the peace : The unconscious unveiled ; Europe's mother civilisation ; The gene rediscovered ; Max Planck's quantum ; Picasso in Paris Half-way house : 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 : Nietzsche ; Veblen ; Spencer ; Haeckel ; Lapouge's 'racial disaster' ; Ratzel's 'lebensraum' ; Houston Chamberlain ; Nordau's 'degeneration' ; Galton's eugenics ; Herzl's zionism ; Weber's protestant ethic ; Conrad's Africa Les demoiselles de modernisme : 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 : 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 ... : Rutherford's atom ; Einstein's relativity ; Baekeland's awkward resin ; Russell and Whitehead ; Adrenaline ; Ehrlich's magic bullet Ladders of blood : 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 : The armory show ; The sonderbund ; Apollinaire's alcools and 'zone' ; Stravinsky's rite of spring ; Diaghilev and Nijinsky ; Einstein's special theory ; Niel Bohr's orbits ; Death in Venice ; Sons and lovers ; Proust ; Jung's break with Freud ; Robert Frost Counter-attack : 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

Summary: Presents a survey of the ideas, discoveries, individuals, and cultural expressions that comprise the intellectual history of the twentieth century

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	CB 427 W341m 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000052085

Includes bibliographical references (pages [773]-827) and indexes.

Preface
Introduction: an evolution in the rules of thought
Part one. Freud to Wittgenstein: The sense of a beginning : Disturbing the peace : The unconscious unveiled ; Europe's mother civilisation ; The gene rediscovered ; Max Planck's quantum ; Picasso in Paris
Half-way house : 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 : Nietzsche ; Veblen ; Spencer ; Haeckel ; Lapouge's 'racial disaster' ; Ratzel's 'lebensraum' ; Houston Chamberlain ; Nordau's 'degeneration' ; Galton's eugenics ; Herzl's zionism ; Weber's protestant ethic ; Conrad's Africa
Les demoiselles de modernisme : 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 : 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 ... : Rutherford's atom ; Einstein's relativity ; Baekeland's awkward resin ; Russell and Whitehead ; Adrenaline ; Ehrlich's magic bullet
Ladders of blood : 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 : The armory show ; The sonderbund ; Apollinaire's alcools and 'zone' ; Stravinsky's rite of spring ; Diaghilev and Nijinsky ; Einstein's special theory ; Niel Bohr's orbits ; Death in Venice ; Sons and lovers ; Proust ; Jung's break with Freud ; Robert Frost
Counter-attack : 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

Presents a survey of the ideas, discoveries, individuals, and cultural expressions that comprise the intellectual history of the twentieth century

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