The origins of modernism

pp. 86-106

in: Peter Langford, Modern philosophies of human nature, Berlin, Springer, 1986

Abstract

Some of the material in this chapter is more difficult than that in others and the whole chapter could be omitted at a first reading. I have concentrated on writers who were immediately and directly influential on the thinking of the most important founders of the modernist movement: Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger and Sartre. It is however of interest to look at the earlier development of the ideas of unconscious motives and of investigations of human nature through consciousness.