Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Chronology xi
Introduction 1David Bradshaw
1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” 6Angelique Richardson
2 Eugenics: “They should certainly be killed” 34David Bradshaw
3 Nietzscheanism: “The Superman and the all-too-human” 56Michael Bell
4 Anthropology: “The latest form of evening entertainment” 75Jeremy MacClancy
5 Bergsonism: “Time out of mind” 95Mary Ann Gillies
6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: “The rituals of destruction” 116Stephen Frosh
7 Language: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” 138April McMahon
8 Technology: “Multiplied man” 158Tim Armstrong
9 The Concept of the State 1880–1939: “The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well” 179Sarah Wilkinson
10 Physics: “A strange footprint” 200Michael H. Whitworth
11 Modernist Publishing: “Nomads and mapmakers” 221Peter D. McDonald
12 Reading: “‘Mind hungers’ common and uncommon” 243Todd Avery and Patrick Brantlinger
Select Bibliography 262
Index 266