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Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

By Peter Watson

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.

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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 07/23/2002
Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780060084387
ISBN-10: 0060084383
Language: English

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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.

About the Author

Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times , a New York correspondentof the London Times , a columnist for theLondon Observer , and a contributor to the New YorkTimes.

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