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A Terrible Beauty The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind

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A Terrible Beauty

The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind

1 Disturbing the Peace: Sigmund Freud; The Interpretation of Dreams; Psychoanalysis; Therapeutic nihilism; Arthur Evans; Knossos; Hugo de Vries; Mutationism; Mendelian inheritance; Max Planck; Black body; Introduction to quantum mechanics; Pablo Picasso; Exposition Universelle (1900); Richard von Krafft-Ebing
2 Half-Way House: Individualism; Universalism; Arthur Schnitzler; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Franz Brentano; Edmund Husserl; Phenomenology (philosophy); Gestalt psychology; Otto Weininger; Otto Wagner; Adolf Loos; Gustav Klimt; Vienna Secession; Ernst Mach
3 Darwin's Heart of Darkness: Herbert Spencer; Social Darwinism; Ernst Haeckel; Max Nordau; Degeneration (Max Nordau); Francis Galton; Eugenics; Max Weber; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Joseph Conrad; Heart of Darkness
4 Les Demoiselles De Modernisme: Richard Strauss; Salome (opera); Modernism; Die Brücke; Arnold Schoenberg; Fauvism; Henri Matisse; Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Georges Braque; Cubism; Alfred Stieglitz; Wassily Kandinsky; Henri Bergson
5 The Pragmatic Mind of America: William James; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Louis Sullivan; Frank Lloyd Wright; Wright brothers; Ashcan School; William Glackens; George Luks; D. W. Griffith
6 E = mc2: Ernest Rutherford; Nuclear physics; Albert Einstein; History of special relativity; Introduction to special relativity; Bertrand Russell; Alfred North Whitehead; Principia Mathematica
7 Ladders of Blood: W. E. B. Du Bois; Thomas Hunt Morgan; Franz Boas; Hiram Bingham III; Alfred Wegener
8 Volcano: Armory Show; Marcel Duchamp; Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2; Guillaume Apollinaire; Igor Stravinsky; Sergei Diaghilev; Introduction to general relativity; Niels Bohr; Bohr–Einstein debates; Carl Jung; Thomas Mann; Marcel Proust; Alfred Adler
9 Counter-Attack: World War I; World War I in art and literature; Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales; Robert Yerkes; Rupert Brooke; Robert Graves; Wilfred Owen; Isaac Rosenberg; Siegfried Sassoon; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Dada; Jean Arp; Kurt Schwitters; André Breton; Louis Aragon; Constructivism (art); Alexander Rodchenko; Vladimir Tatlin; Anatoly Lunacharsky; El Lissitzky; Naum Gabo; Vladimir Mayakovsky
10 Eclipse: Oswald Spengler; The Decline of the West; John Maynard Keynes; György Lukács; Vienna Circle; Arthur Stanley Eddington
11 The Acquisitive Wasteland: R. H. Tawney; T. S. Eliot; Ezra Pound; Luigi Pirandello; Karl Kraus; James Joyce; Ulysses (novel); F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby; Virginia Woolf; Surrealism
12 Babbitt's Middletown: Sinclair Lewis; Middletown studies; Harlem Renaissance; Harold Ross; John Reith, 1st Baron Reith; Henry Luce
13 Heroe's Twilight: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Emil Nolde; Bertolt Brecht; Kurt Weill; Alban Berg; Bauhaus; Walter Gropius; New Objectivity (architecture); Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Josef Albers; László Moholy-Nagy; Paul Klee; Frankfurt School; Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Erich Fromm; Max Horkheimer; Rainer Maria Rilke; Martin Heidegger; Being and Time; Continental philosophy; Logical positivism; Kurt Gödel; Karl Popper; Robert Musil; Franz Kafka
14 The Evolution of Evolution