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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age

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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age - Randall, John Herman, and Barzun, Jacques (Foreword by)
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From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand ...

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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age 1976, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231041430

50th Anniversary edition

Trade paperback

The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age 1976, Columbia University Press

ISBN-13: 9780231041423

50th Anniversary edition

Hardcover