The Modern Mind

“Splendidly readable and hugely informative. . . . Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life.” — Boston Globe 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 inte