Dictionary of Modern Culture

With over 300 entries from more than 200 contributors, this is the most comprehensive and informative survey of twentieth century ideas ever published. You will refer to this dictionary time and time again, not only for information and facts, but for stimulation and enjoyment. From Freud to R D Laing, from Proust to Garcia Marquez, from Picasso to Warhol, from Chaplin to Goddard, from Debussy to Stockhausen, from Shaw to Pinter, from Wittgenstein to Popper, from Durkheim to McLuhan, from Yeats to Ginsberg, from Wells to Castaneda.