Full name: The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Author: Peter Watson Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Philosophy, Non Fiction, Science, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060084387 0060084383

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. Similar books: The German Genius by Peter Watson The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley Compass by Alan Gurney A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys Intellectuals by Paul Johnson Civilization by Roger Osborne Reflections on History by Jacob Burckhardt The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon The Lessons of History by Will Durant Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma