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1 A Relativistic World
1 A.Einstein, in Annalen der Physik, 17 (Leipzig 1905), 891ff.
2 Banesh Hoffman, Einstein (London 1975 ed.), 78; John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (London 1967 ed.), 236â73.
3 Hoffman, op cit., 81â2.
4 A.Vibert Douglas, The Life of Arthur Stanley Eddington (London 1956), 39â40.
5 Daily Telegraph, 25 June 1980; D.W.Sciama, The Physical Foundations of General Relativity (New York 1969).
6 Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutation (London 1963), 34ff.; and Popper, Unended Quest: an Intellectual Autobiography (London 1976 ed.), 38.
7 A.N.Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (London 1925).
8 A.Einstein, Out of My Later Years (London 1950), 41.
9 The Born-Einstein Letters 1916â1955 (London 1971).
10 Ibid., 149.
11 Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, ed. Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus (New York 1961), 493ff.
12 Ibid., 493.
13 B. A. Farrell, The Standing of Psychoanalysis (Oxford 1981); Anthony Clare, The Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 1981, 735.
14 P.B.Medawar, The Hope of Progress (London 1972).
15 Jones, op. cit., 493.
16 Letter of 18 December 1912. William McGuire (ed.), The Freud-Jung Letters, (tr. London 1971), 534â5.
17 See Freudâs essay, âPsychoanalysis Exploring the Hidden Recesses of the Mindâ, in the Encyclopaedia Brittania survey, These Eventful Years: the Twentieth Century in the Making, 2 vols (New York 1924), II 511ff.
18 Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (London 1927), 28.
19 Quoted by Richard Buckle, Diaghilev (New York 1979), 87.
20 Walter Laqueur, Weimar: a Cultural History, 1918â1933 (London 1974).
21 There is no evidence they met. The conjunction forms the setting for Tom Stoppardâs play Travesties (1977).
22 George Painter, Marcel Proust, 2 vols (New York 1978), II 293ff.
23 Theodore Zeldin, France 1848â1945, 2 vols (Oxford, 1977), vol. II Intellect, Taste, Anxiety, 370ff.
24 Quoted in Lionel Trilling, The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews 1965â1977 (New York 1979), 28.
25 Painter, op. cit., II 339.
26 Camille Vettard, âProust et Einsteinâ, Nouvelle Revue Française, August 1922.
27 Trilling, op. cit., 28â9.
28 Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 20.
29 Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) 70â81.
30 Quoted in Fritz Stern, The Failure of Illiberalism (London 1972), âBethmann Hollweg and the Warâ, 77â118.
31 FrederickR. Karl, Joseph Conrad: the Three Lives (New York 1979), 737â8.
32 J.B.Bury, The Idea of Progress (London 1920), 352; see I.F.Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation, 1744â2001 (London 1979).
33 Quoted by Martin Gilbert in R.S.Churchill and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, 5 vols (to date) with companion volumes (London, 1966â) IV 913â14.
34 Randolph Bourne, Untimely Papers (New York 1919), 140.
35 Foster Rhea Dulles, The United States Since 1865 (Ann Arbor 1959), 263.
36 Figure given by Karl Deutsch, âThe Crisis of the Stateâ, Government and Opposition (London School of Economics), Summer 1981.
37 W.W.Rostow, The World Economy: History and Prospect (University of Texas 1978), 59.
38 Margaret Miller, The Economic Development of Russia, 1905â1914 (London 1926), 299.
39 Olga Crisp, Studies in the Russi...
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- One - A Relativistic World
- Two - The First Despotic Utopias
- Three - Waiting for Hitler
- Four - Legitimacy in Decadence
- Five - An Infernal Theocracy, a Celestial Chaos
- Six - The Last Arcadia
- Seven - DĂ©gringolade
- Eight - The Devils
- Nine - The High Noon of Aggression
- Ten - The End of Old Europe
- Eleven - The Watershed Year
- Twelve - Superpower and Genocide
- Thirteen - Peace by Terror
- Fourteen - The Bandung Generation
- Fifteen - Calibanâs Kingdoms
- Sixteen - Experimenting with Half Mankind
- Seventeen - The European Lazarus
- Eighteen - Americaâs Suicide Attempt
- Nineteen - The Collectivist Seventies
- Twenty - The Recovery of Freedom
- Source Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Praise
- Copyright
- About the Publisher