About this title: A compelling survey of the ideas, discoveries, individuals, and cultural expressions that comprise the intellectual history of the twentieth century covers the gamut, from Freud's psychotherapy to the War in Kosovo. Reprint.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
Description: Good. Major writers, artists, science and philosophy combined into an intellectual narrative of last century. 847 pp. Light marks to one page only, no creasing-cover looks new. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 7/23/2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002-08-01
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial 2000
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers 2001
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060194130ISBN:0060194138
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2002-07-01
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperTrade, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060084387ISBN:0060084383
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"Brilliant comprehensive and balanced intellectual history of the 20th century that complements his other volume that covers from the beginning to 1900: From Fire to Freud."
"This was a great thought provoking book about the ideas of the modern era and how religion went from being central to being discarded by so many intellectuals in the modern era, but then the brave new Godless world turned out to be worse than the old one and the post modern era dawned in recognition that the materialist and scientific worldview that discards God is not the salvation of mankind that almost all intellectuals thought it would be. This book is a great companion read to the Evolution of God. I spent a long time pondering the answer to the materialist accusation that God is absent from the universe and that the concept of God is dead for those with intellectual honesty. That has been the great struggle of the modern era that in some respects Mormonism is a reaction against. How does a Mormon intellectual reconcile the absence of God from the universe with our religious tradition of continuing revelation and a personal anthropomorphic God as described in the bible? One day I was jogging around Timothy Lake early in the morning and came to "Inspiration Point" and decided to seek the answer to this fundamental question.... and the answer that came to me was it is the time dimension that makes God seem absent from the Universe and from our mortal temporal perspective what we perceive as being a revelation today may be something God did or built into the universe before the big bang of creation. The limitations of the time dimension are what create the veil behind which God is hiding from our physical senses and it is only by trascending time and the physical universe that we can sense and see God in this mortal life."
"I am slowly working my way through this intellectual and cultural history; very readable and packed full of stuff we all should know (Darwinism, Modern Art, Physics, Psychoanalysis) but our education system fails to teach us. Recommended to all those who love and appreciate the humanities (even if it just means dipping into this book from time to time)."
"This book serves two purposes. First, it provides a meta-narrative of 20th-century intellectual history that ties together the scientific, artistic, and socioeconomic trends of the last 100 years into an overarching story of increasing individualism and alienation. On that count, it satisfyingly explains over the course of 800 small-print pages what countless other authors have explored in-depth in 200 or 300 pages. Second, it gives the reader a jumping-off point for literally hundreds of possible new reads. Personally, I'm now picking up Gilbert Ryle's Concept of Mind, Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Wittgenstein's , and Lewis's Babbitt--a wide range of books I probably never would've thought about tackling before (this is in addition to the new art and music I'm trying to learn how to better appreciate)."
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