Internet Modern History Sourcebook Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Modern Art
SeeMain Page for a guide to all contents of all sections. Contents - Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein
- The Classical Synthesis
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Reactions to Darwin
- Social Darwinism
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
- Philosophical Reflections: The End of Reason?
- Scientists' Reflections on Science and Meaning
- Literature: Humanity's Heart of Darkness?
- Visual Arts: What to Do After Photography?
Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein- SeeHistory of Science Sourcebook
- :Late 19th Century Science and Culture
- Philosophers, Scientists and Theologians of the 19th Century [At Internet Archive]
Names, dates, and major works (with text links where available) - The Classical Synthesis
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867):Lectures on the Forces of Matter, 1859 [At this Site]
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867):The Chemical History of A Candle, 1860 [At this Site]
- John Tyndall:Faraday as a Discoverer, 1894, in chapter files, full text [Was At Bibliomania, now Internet Archive]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907):Tides, 1882 [At this Site]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907):Wave Theory Of Light, 1884 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz:On The Conservation Of Force, 1863 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz:Ice and Glaciers, 1865 [At this Site]
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Voyage of the Beagle 1845 [At Literature.Org][Full Text] [Internet Archive versionhere]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):On the Origin of Species 1859 [At Literature.Org][Full Text] [Internet Archive versionhere]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):On the Origin of the Species 1859 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):On the Origin of Species 1859, short extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):On the Origin of Species 1859, extracts [At Hanover]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Descent of Man 1871 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Descent of Man 1871, excerpts [At this Site]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Descent of Man 1871, excerpts on Sexual Selection [At this Site]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [At Project Gutenberg]
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95):The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, 1880, full text [Was At Alberta, now Internet Archive]
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949):The Life of the Bee [La Vie des Abeilles], translated from French into English by Alfred Sutro, full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive versionhere]
- Reactions to Darwin
- Social Darwinism
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909):Extent of The Universe 1884 [At this Site]
It was not realised until the 1920s that there was more than one galaxy in the universe. - Percival Lowell (1855-1916):Mars 1895, in chapter files, full text [At Bibliomania]
- A.S. Eddington (1882-1944):Stars and Atoms 1926 in chapter files, full text [At Bibliomania]
- James Nasmyth:Autobiography 1897, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
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Philosophical Reflections: The End of Reason? - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860):On Suicide [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860):On the Sufferings of the World [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860):The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855):The Present Age [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
See also Richard Hooker'sIntroduction [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive] - Auguste Comte (1798-1857):A General View of Positivism [At this Site]
- Auguste Comte:View of the Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy [At History Guide] [Internet Archive versionhere]
- Auguste Comte:The Action of Positivism on the Working classes [Was At Warwick, now Internet Archive]
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881):Notes From the Underground [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881):Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor [At Online Literature][Internet Archive versionhere]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):Parable of the Madman [At this Site]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):The Gay Science [At Hanover]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1891 [Full text][At this Site]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):Also sprach Zarathustra [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text][In German]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):The AntiChrist, 1895 [At Project Gutenberg]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):The Geneology of Morals, extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
See also Richard Hooker'sIntroduction [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive] - Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900):"Good and Evil," "Good and Bad" [Was At Warwick, now Internet Archive]
- William James (1842-1910):Essays in Radical Empiricism [Was At Brock U., now Internet Archive][Full Text]
- Lugwig Wittgenstein:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [At Witt] [Internet Archive versionhere]
Hypertext of the Ogden bilingual edition - Kurt Gödel:On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, 1931 [PDF File] [Full Text] [Was At IBM, now Internet Archive]
- Scientists' Reflections on Science and Meaning
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Literature: Humanity's Heart of Darkness? - Mathew Arnold (1822-88):Dover Beach c. 1867 [At Poetry Foundation]
On the retreat of faith. A little premature given the religious revival in Catholicism and Protestantism in the 19th century. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900):The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):Heart of Darkness 1899 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):Heart of Darkness 1899 [Was At Gaslight, now Internet Archive][Original Magazine Version]
- Joseph Conrad:Lord Jim [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky:Marcel Proust 1924, fromRevolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926):Poems, in English and German [Was At Norconnect, now Internet Archive,]
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