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,
Every year since 1933 many of the world's leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore the
Francis (Canadian history, U. of Calgary) traces the history of Anglo-Canadian thought about technology from the 19th century through the 20th. She identifies four perspectives of technology as object
"Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. This book is an intellectual biography of Frankl, describi
Olsen, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Copenhagen, presents an intellectual biography of 20th-century historian, Reinhart Koselleck. Koselleck's work was wide-ranging and included political his
