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

The century may be understood as a period during which the scientific method colonised all modes of thought and changed the way thinking is done. – 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 encyclopaedic, 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.