Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [773]-827) and indexes.

CONTENTS :
Preface xi --
Introduction: an Evolution in the Rules of Thought I --
PART ONE:
FREUD TO WITTGENSTEIN The scene of a beginning --
1. Disturbing the Peace --
The unconscious unveiled – Europe’s mother civilization - the gene rediscovered – Max Planck’s quantum - Picasso in Paris 11 --
2. Half-way House --
German pre-eminence in thought - Vienna's cafés a market for ideas - Schnitzler and von Hofmannsthal - Brentano and Husserl - Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis - Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos - Weininger and Klimt - Ernst Mach 26 --
3. Darwin's Heart of Darkness --
Nietzsche - Veblen - Spencer - Haeckel- Lapouge's 'racial disaster' - Ratzel's 'Lebensraum'- Houston Chamberlain - Nordau's 'Degeneration' - Galton's eugenics - Herzl's Zionism - Weber's Protestant Ethic - Conrad's Africa 39 --
4. Les Demoiselles de Modernisme --
Strauss's Salomé and Elektra - Schoenberg's Ewartung - Picasso's whores - Kandinsky's abstractions - Bergson's élan vital - Pascendi Dominici Gregis - the new learning in China 52 --
5. The Pragmatic Mind of America --
University life - Charles Eliot - Peirce, James and the Pragmatic school of philosophy - John Dewey - Harvard Business School - Taylor's Scientific Management - Hofstadter and the practical culture of America - Sullivan and the skyscraper - Kill Devil Hill - the Ashcan School - The Great Train Robbery - D. W. Griffith - Mary Pickford 73 --
6. E=mc2,/=/v+C-H38O4 --
Rutherford's atom - Einstein's relativity – Baekeland's awkward resin - Russell and Whitehead - adrenaline - Ehrlich's magic bullet 90 --
7. Ladders of Blood --
WE. B. Du Bois and Souls of Black Folk - the NAACP - The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition-T. H. Morgan and the fruitfly - Franz Boas and The Mind of Primitive Man - Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu - Wegener's continental drift 108 --
8. Volcano --
The Armory Show - the Sonderbund - Apollinaire's Alcools and 'Zone' - Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - Diaghilev and Nijinsky - Einstein's special theory - Niels Bohr's orbits - Death in Venice - Sons and Lovers - Proust - Jung's break with Freud - Robert Frost 126 --
9. Counter Attack --
The intellectual consequences of war - plastic surgery blood grouping and transfusion - the concept of the IQ - the Americanisation of the IQ - psychoanalysis achieves respectability – the war poets - the 'versus' habit - spiritualism - Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus - Dada in Zurich - artists of the Russian Revolution 144 --
PART TWO :
SPENGLER TO ANIMAL FARM Civilisations and Their Discontents --
10. Eclipse --
Spengler's Decline of the West - Versailles - The Economic Consequences of the Peace - May 4 in China - George Lukács's Sunday Circle - Bartók's Bluebeard - Eddington at Principe 171 --
11. The Acquisitive Wasteland --
186 Tawney's bitter vision - Eliot's Waste Land - Pirandello's bleak stage - Karl Kraus's Last Days - Joyce's Bloom - Yeats - Gatsby's many wastelands - Proust, again - Gide's moral wasteland - Jacob's Room - Breton's unconscious murmur - Ernst and Dali's biological wasteland – Magritte 186 --
12. Babbitt's Middletown --
IQ and race - the Scopes's trial - Babbitt - the concept of the 'middlebrow' - Middletown - the Harlem renaissance - The New Yorker - birth of the BBC 206 --
13. Heroes' Twilight --
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - the Warburg Institute - the Bauhaus - the Frankfurt School- 'secret' Germany - Rilke - The Magic Mountain - serialism - Brecht - Brecht - Heidegger- the intellectual origins of the Third Reich History and Class Consciousness - the Vienna Circle - Robert Musil - Kafka - Hitler and 221 --
14. The Evolution of Evolution --
The idea of progress - the Tomb of Tutankhamen - Ur- Leonard Woolley and Sumer - the Flood and the First Library - Ras Shamra and the evolution of El - tree-ring dating – Whig history 245 --
15. The Golden Age of Physics --
Bohr links physics and chemistry - Pauli's exclusion principle - Rutherford 'splits' the atom - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - Schrödinger's waves - Chadwick and the neutron Hubble's expanding universe - Pauling's chemical bond - Whittle and Von Ohain's jet - Gödel's theorem 256 --
16. Civilisations and Their Discontents --
Freud and the health of the West - Jung's modern man - Horney's 'neurotic personality' - A Room of One's Own - Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict's anthropology - Chicago sociology - The Negro in American Civilisation - Faulkner's South- Faulkner's South - Orwell's Paris, London and Wigan – Mumford's cities - Dean Inge v. Bertrand Russell - The Revolt of the Masses the Webbs in Russia - Rosenberg's 'Myth' - Huxley's 'new' world 273 --
17. Inquisition --
Blacklist of artists in Germany-paintings seized - Einstein's persecution - campaigns against von Frisch, the Bauhaus, the Warburg Institute, the Frankfurt School - Vienna Circle exiled - attacks on Freud and Hannah Arendt - Karl Lorenz's work for the Nazis - Himmler's 'science' - the exhibition of Degenerate Art - the philosophy, courage and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - nationalisation of arts and sciences in Soviet Russia - the role of Maxim Gorky - Red professors - the persecution of Nikolai Vavilov - Lysenko - the purge of scientists - the KGB literary archive - the death of Osip Mandelstam 300 --
18. Cold Comfort --
Talking pictures - Goebbels and Riefenstahl- 'The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction' - CIAM - Auden and his generation - writers in the Spanish Civil War - Picasso's Guernica - Penguin Books - Fiction and the Reading Public - Keynes's theory of employment and money - Cole Porter - cellophane and nylon - Eugene O'Neill - On Native Grounds - Citizen Kane 326 --
19. Hitler's Gift --
Artists exiled in America - German academics in Turkey - mathematicians, musicians and psychologists flee to the U.S. Varian Fry and the ERC - the University in Exile Mondrian's New York paintings - Schoenberg (and others) in Los Angeles - Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine 350 --
20. Colossus --
Alan Turing, Enigma and ENIAC - radar - penicillin - the caves at Lascaux - the evolutionary synthesis - Schrödinger's 'What is Life?' 361 --
21. No Way Back --
Karl Mannheim - Joseph Schumpeter- Friedrich von Hayek - Karl Popper - 'Christianity and the Social Order' - the Beveridge Report - Animal Farm - Keynes and the war- Bretton Woods and the peace - An American Dilemma 376 --
22. Light in August --
A nuclear chain reaction becomes possible - Enrico Fermi- nuclear fission - the Manhattan Project - the meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr - German, Russian and Japanese plans for a bomb - Hiroshima - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword 392 --
PART THREE :
SARTRE TO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY The New Human Condition and The Great Society --
23. Paris in the Year Zero --
Sartre - Ritzkrieg - Merleau-Ponty - Aragon - the Left Bank - Kravchenko the Paris School of painters - Camus – Genet – Beckett – Ionesco 407 --
24. Daughters and Lovers --
Simone de Beauvoir - the Kinsey Report - Masters and Johnson - Gregory Pincus and the contraceptive pill - Nabokov's Lolita - Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique 421 --
25. The New Human Condition --
The Lonely Crowd - The Authoritarian Personality - Hannah Arendt - Erich Fromm's Sane Society - Organisation Man - C. Wright Mills - Galbraith's Affluent Society W. W. Rostow - Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders – Daniel Bell's End of Ideology - The Rise of the Meritocracy 432 --
26. Cracks in the Canon --
Eliot's Definition of Culture - F R. Leavis - Lionel Trilling - The American Mind - Ginsberg's Howl – Kerouac's On the Road - the new pop - James Baldwin - Things Fall Apart - Lévi-Strauss - John Osborne - The Movement and Philip Larkin - The Uses of Literacy - Raymond Williams - Snow's Two Cultures 450 --
27. Forces of Nature --
Michael Polanyi - 1984 - Lysenko, again - Shockley and the transistor - Watson, Crick and DNA - Korolev and Sputnik - Louis and Mary Leakey and Zinjanthropus - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 471 --
28. Mind minus Metaphysics --
Psycho - The Divided Self- Gilbert Ryle - Wittgenstein - The failures of psychoanalysis - Skinner v. Chomsky - Maternal deprivation - Piaget - tranquilisers - Herbert Marcuse 490 --
29. Manhattan Transfer --
Eichmann in Jerusalem - refugee analysts in America - Bruno Bettelheim - Erik Erikson - physicists in America: Gamow, Gell-Mann and quarks - Andy Warhol - The Last Avant- Garde - Sontag's 'Against Interpretation'
30. Equality, Freedom, and Justice in the Great Society --
The Condition of Liberty (Hayek) - Milton Friedman - The Other America - Jane Jacobs - Martin Luther King - the Civil Rights campaign - Frantz Fanon - Eldridge Cleaver - Maya Angelou - Germaine Greer - Juliet Mitchell - Kate Millett - Shere Hite - the Coleman Report - Arthur Jensen - Christopher Jencks - Deschooling Society - One- Dimensional Man - Norman Mailer - China's Cultural Revolution - madness in Russia- Solzhenitsyn – Isaiah Berlin on liberty - Marshall McLuhan - Guy Debord - Rawls's Theory of Justice - Robert Nozick on anarchy - Skinner on Freedom and Dignity 516 --
31. La Longue Durée --
Seafloor spreading and tectonic plates - the Beringia conference - Basil Davidson's Old --
Africa - Ferdinand Braudel and the Annales school- the British Marxist historians - Renfrew's radiocarbon revolution 553 --
32. Heaven and Earth --
The moon landing - pulsars and background radiation - The First Three Minutes - quasars - The Bible and Archaeology - Paul Tillich - Rudolf Bultmann - Teilhard de Chardin Reinhald Niebuhr- Vatican II - Rachel Carson - The Limits to Growth of America - Small is Beautiful 566 --
PART FOUR :
THE COUNTER-CULTURE TO KOSOVO The View From Nowhere, The View From Everywhere --
33. A New Sensibility --
The Oil Crisis - The New Industrial State - Post-Industrial Society and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism - Roszak's Counter-culture - Zen and Motorcycles - Tom Wolfe's Acid Test - The Me Decade - the Narcissism of Professor Lasch - Religion and the Decline of Magic - The World Turned Upside Down 589 --
34. Genetic Safari --
Ethology - African Genesis - three women in Africa - The Serengeti Lion - snow leopards and elephants - 'Lucy' and Laetoli - Fred Sanger's two Nobel prizes - Genentech - Jacques Monod - Sociobiology - Dawkins's mathematics of the jungle 606 --
35. The French Collection --
Galérie Beaubourg - Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers - IRCAM and Pierre Boulez – Karlheinz Stockhausen - Jacques Lacan - Michel Foucault - Piaget's Structuralism - Jacques Derrida - Louis Althusser - Jürgen Habermas - Roland Barthes - Robert Bresson - Jacques Tati - François Truffaut-Jean-Luc Godard - Peter Brook's CIRT 621 --
36. Doing Well, and Doing Good --
Taking Rights Seriously - Free to Choose - the Solow Residual - New Growth Theory - the famines of Amartya Sen - The Culture of Contentment - Losing Ground - America's enduring race problem 644 --
37. The Wages of Repression --
AIDS-beta-blockers - immunosuppressants - heart transplants - oncogenes - Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor - AIDS and the arts - the attack on psychoanalysis - the attack on Margaret Mead 657 --
38. Local Knowledge --
Lyotard's Postmodern Condition - the philosophy of Richard Rorty - Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions - Clifford Geertz - Hilary Putnam - Willard van Quine - Relative Rationality David Harvey's ephemeral truths 667 --
39. ' The Best Idea, Ever ' --
Genetic fingerprints - the origins of life - Lynn Margulis's eukaryotes - the K/T boundary- the death of the dinosaurs - Turkana Boy - mitochondrial DNA - the 'mother tongue' – the Neo-Darwinists and their family quarrels - The Bell Curve - the Human Genome Project - Consciousness studies 682 --
40. The Empire Writes Back --
Non-fiction v. fiction – U.S. English v. U.K. English - English as a Global Language – Toni Morrison - Alice Walker - Vargas Llosa - Gabriel García Márquez – R. K. Narayan - Anita Desai - Salman Rushdie - V. S. Naipaul - Satyajit Ray - Wole Soyinka - Edward Said's Orientalism - Gayatri Spivak's Subaltern Studies - The Political Unconscious Political Shakespeare - David Mamet - John Updike - Saul Bellow - Approaches to American Indian Texts 704 --
41. Culture Wars --
The Closing of the American Mind - The Western Canon - the counter-attack - Black Athena - the counter-attack - Enola Gay and the counter-attack - cultural politics on campus - Cultivating Humanity - Great Books today - Gertrude Himmelfarb's warning 721 --
42. Deep Order --
The Internet - its history - the singularity of Stephen Hawking - black holes - The Birth of the Universe – wormholes - the anthropic universe - string theory - chaoplexity – artificial
life - the deep order of mathematics, even in biology – morphomatics 737 --
Conclusion: The Positive Hour 751 --
Notes and References or do I be 773 --
Index of Names 829 --
Index of Ideas 843 --