1st Edition

The Myth of Modernity

By Charles Baudouin Copyright 1950
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1950, this was a new work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter, which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards... Read more

1. From the Myth of Progress to the Myth of Modernity  2. The Clean Sweep  3. Angelism  4. Politeness  5. Technique versus Nature  6. Baudelaire and the Modern Man  7. Of the Prestige of Action  8. Communions  9. Opinion and Tolerance  10. Humanism  11. Eloquence on Trial  12. Of Reading  13. Technique versus Mysticism  14. A Moderate View of Happiness  15. The Paradoxes of Education  16. The Gift of Childhood  17. Confidence in Mankind  18. An Apology for the Unruly  19. Withdrawal into one’s Tent  20. Verlaine  21. Art and the Epoch.

Biography

Charles Baudouin , Bernard Miall