Book description
CONTENTS:
The Genesis of Modern Thought
1. Twentieth Century Perspectives
2. The Romantic Rebellion
3. The Darwinian Revolution
Man’s View of the Universe
4. The Exploration of Space
5. Einstein and Relativity
6. The Secrets of the Atom
7. The Impact of the New Concepts
Man’s View of Himself
8. Freud and the Unconscious
9. Jung and the Collective Unconscious
10. Adler and the Individual Lifestyle
11. Pavlov and the Behaviourists
The Search for a Personal Philosophy
12. Phenomenology, Existentialism and the Philosophy of Experience
13. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Superman
14. Sartre and the Idea of Authenticity
15. Camus and the Logic of Rebellion
Modern Man in Modern Literature
16. Some Features of Modern Literature
17. Yeats: The Divided Self
18. Joyce: The Artist as a Hero
19. Kafka: The Defeat of Reason
20. Eliot: The Wasteland and Beyond
21. Hemingway: The Code of Courage
22. Dylan Thomas: Hymn to the Irrational
The Imagery of Modern Art
24. The End of Representation
25. The Transformation of Art
26. The Twentieth Centtury Image
