In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.
It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud's entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including... Læs mere
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modernage, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress cameto hold sway over the Western world.