The Myth of Modernity

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.

Charles Baudouin, Bernard Miall

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.