Watson, Peter,  1943- <br/><br/>
The modern mind :  an intellectual history of the 20th century / 
 Intellectual history of the 20th century 
Peter Watson. 
 - 1st Perennial ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Perennial, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,   2002. 
 - xiv, 847 pages ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [773]-827) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Preface<br/>Introduction: an evolution in the rules of thought<br/>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<br/>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<br/>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<br/>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<br/>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<br/>E=mc2 ... : Rutherford's atom ; Einstein's relativity ; Baekeland's awkward resin ; Russell and Whitehead ; Adrenaline ; Ehrlich's magic bullet<br/>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<br/>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<br/>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 
<br/><br/> Presents a survey of the ideas, discoveries, individuals, and cultural expressions that comprise the intellectual history of the twentieth century 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060084383 (pbk.) 9780060084387 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Modern--20th century.<br/>Civilización moderna--Siglo XX<br/>Intellectual life--History--20th century.<br/>Vida intelectual <br/>Philosophy, Modern--20th century.<br/>Filosofía moderna --Siglo XX 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CB 427  / W341m 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.82