![]() ![]() Beginning with Freud, psychology descended into this naive idea that we can think our way to understanding human behavior. ![]() That is very similiar to what happened in psychology. I don't know that much about sociology except to take on board his his reference to Horowitz who asserted that sociology has become overly dominated by theorising(especially Marxist theorising) when the sociologists should have been in the field gathering data. ![]() The author cites that two huge intellectual failures of the 20th century were sociology and psychology. This is a valulable text, one that should be read in its entirety and then kept handy as a reference source. That is not the author's fault, it is just a function of human behavior. That is to be expected, a coverage of this extent is bound to leave the individual reader with pages tedious to read. The writing is lucid and entertaining, though at times I found some of the material covered tedious. The author admits he cannot cover in detail all the relevant ideas of the last century yet he does an excellent job in providing the reader with a sweeping panorama of 20th century thought. This work is a remarkable scholarly achievement. ![]() The Modern Mind: An intellectual history of the 20th Century ![]()
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