Modern Mind

Slayman, Jean Smith, Robert Solow, Howard Spiegler, Ian Stewart, Robin Straus, Herb Terrace, Sharne Thomas, Cecilia Todeschini, Mark Tomkins, Marion True, Bob Tyrer, Joaquim Valdes, Harold Varmus, Anna Vinton, Carlos Western, Randall White, Keith Whitelaw, Patricia Williams, E. O. Wilson, Rebecca Wilson, Kate Zebiri, Henry Zhao, Dorothy Zinberg, W. R. Zku.
    Since so many twentieth-century thinkers are now dead, I have also relied on books – not just the ‘great books’ of the century but often the commentaries and criticisms generated by those original works. One of the pleasures of researching and writing
The Modern Mind
has been the rediscovery of forgotten writers who for some reason have slipped out of the limelight, yet often have things to tell us that are still original, enlightening, and relevant. I hope readers will share my enthusiasm on this score.
    This is a general book, and it would have held up the text unreasonably to mark every debt in the text proper. But all debts
are
acknowledged, fully I trust, in more than 3,000 Notes and References at the end of the book. However, I would like here to thank those authors and publishers of the works to which my debt is especially heavy, among whose pages I have pillaged, précised and paraphrased shamelessly. Alphabetically by author/editor they are: Bernard Bergonzi,
Reading the Thirties
(Macmillan, 1978) and
Heroes’ Twilight: A Studyof the Literature of the Great War
(Macmillan, 1980); Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie,
The Book of Man: The Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
(Little Brown, 1994); Malcolm Bradbury,
The Modern American Novel
(Oxford University Press, 1983); Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds.,
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890—1930
(Penguin Books, 1976); C. W. Ceram,
Gods, Graves and Scholars
(Knopf, 1951) and
The First Americans
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971); William Everdell,
The First Moderns
(University of Chicago Press, 1997); Richard Fortey,
Life: An Unauthorised Biography
(HarperCollins, 1997); Peter Gay,
Weimar Culture
(Seeker and Warburg, 1969); Stephen Jay Gould,
The Mismeasure of Man
(Penguin Books, 1996); Paul Griffiths,
Modern Music: A Concise History
(Thames and Hudson, 1978 and 1994); Henry Grosshans,
Hitler and the Artists
(Holmes and Meier, 1983); Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon,
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
(Touchstone, 1998); Ian Hamilton, ed.,
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
(Oxford University Press, 1994)
; Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996); Mike Hawkins, Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860—1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1997); John Heidenry, What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 1997); Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Simon and Schuster, 1953); John Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas (Macmillan, 1970); Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline in Western History (Free Press, 1997); John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (Addison-Wesley, 1996); Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New (BBC and Thames and Hudson, 1980 and 1991); Jarrell Jackman and Carla Borden, The Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation, 1930–1945 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983); Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman, Seeds of the Sixties (University of California Press, 1994); William Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848—1938 (University of California Press, 1972); Arthur Knight, The Liveliest Art (Macmillan, 1957); Nikolai Krementsov, Stalinist Science (Princeton University Press, 1997); Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations (W. W. Norton,
1995); Robert Lekachman,
The Age of Keynes
(Penguin Press, 1967); J. D. Macdougall,
A Short History of Planet Earth
(John Wiley, 1996); Bryan Magee,
Men of Ideas: Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 1978); Arthur Marwick,
The Sixties
(Oxford University Press, 1998); Ernst Mayr,
The Growth of Biological Thought
(Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1982); Virginia Morrell,
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings
(Simon and Schuster, 1995); Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
(Simon and Schuster,