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

Randall, John Herman, Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023104142X ISBN 13: 9780231041423

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1976

Synopsis

Surveys main currents in Western thought through eight centuries.

About this title

Book Description

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, interpret, and shape human experience.

About the Author

John Herman Randall, Jr., is Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University. He is the author of many works in philosophy and intellectual history, among them Aristotle, The Career of Philosophy, Vols. I and II, How Philosophy Uses its Past, Nature and Historical Experience and Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Volume III, and Other Essays, all published by Columbia University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 023104142X
• ISBN 13: 9780231041423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 696