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Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century (174 page)

6.
Joy Adamson,
Born Free,
London: Collins Harvill, 1960.

7.
House,
Op. cit.,
page 227.

8.
All published by Collins/Harvill in London.

9.
The best of the other books by or about the Adamsons is: George Adamson,
My Pride and Joy,
London: Collins Harvill, 1986, especially Part II, ‘The Company of Lions.’ See also: House, Op.
cit.,
pages 392–393

10.
Jane Goodall,
In the Shallow of Man,
London: Collins, 1971, revised edition Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

11.
Ibid.,
pages 101ff.

12.
Ibid.,
page 242.

13.
Dian Fossey,
Gorillas in the Mist,
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983, page xvi.

14.
Ibid.,
pages 10–11.

15.
Harold Hayes,
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey,
London: Chatto & Windus, 1991, page 321.

16.
George Schaller,
The Serengeti Lion,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

17.
Ibid.,
pages 24ff.

18.
Ibid.,
page 378.

19.
Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton,
Among the Elephants,
London: Collins & Harvill, 1978, page 38.

20.
Ibid.,
pages 212ff.

21.
Virginia Morrell, Ancestral Passions, Op cit., page 466.

22.
Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey,
The Beginnings of Humankind,
London: Granada, 1981, pages 18ff. Morrell,
Op. cit.,
page 466.

23.
Morrell, Op.
cit.,
pages 473–475. Tattersall, Op.
cit.,
page 145.

24.
Johanson and Edey, Op.
cit.,
pages 255ff.

25.
Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail, Op cit., page 151.

26.
Morrell, Op.
cit.,
pages 480 and 487ff.

27.
Johanson and Edey, Op.
cit.,
pages 294–304.

28.
For a discussion of
A. afarensis,
see Donald Johanson and James Shreeve,
Lucy’s Child,
New York: Viking, 1990, pages 104–131. Tattersall, Op.
cit.,
page 154.

29.
Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie,
The Book of Man: The Quest to Discover our Genetic Heritage,
London: Little, Brown, 1994; paperback Abacus, 1995, page 77. Cook-Deegan,
Op. cit.,
page 59.

30.
Bodmer and McKie,
Op. cit.,
pages 77–78.

31.
Ibid.
An alternative account is given in: Colin Tudge,
The Engineer in the Garden,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993, pages 211–213.

32.
Robert Cook-Deegan,
The Gene Wars: Science, Politics and the Human Genome,
New York and London: W. W Norton, 1994, paperback 1995, pages 59–61.

33.
For a good explanation by analogy of this difficult subject, see: Bruce Wallace,
The Search for the Gene, Op. cit.,
page 90.

34.
Bodmer and McKie,
Op. cit.,
pages 73–74. See the complete list for the first genome ever sequenced (by Sanger) in Cook-Deegan, Op
cit.,
pages 62–63.

35.
Bodmer and McKie,
Op. cit.,
pages 86–87.

36.
Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modem Biology,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971; Penguin paperback 1997. For Einstein and ‘mathematical entities’ see page 158; for the ‘primitive’ qualities of Judaeo-Christianity, see page 168; for the ‘knowledge ethic’ on which modern society is based, see page 177.

37.
Edward O. Wilson,
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975; abridged edition 1980.

38.
Ibid.,
page 218.

39.
Ibid.,
pages 19 and 93.

40.
Ibid.,
page 296.

41.
Richard Dawkins,
The Selfish Gene,
Oxford and New York, 1976, new paperback edition, 1989.

42.
Ibid.,
page 71.

43.
Ibid.,
page 97.

CHAPTER 35: THE FRENCH COLLECTION

1.
Nathan Silver, The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994, page 171.

2.
John Musgrove (editor),
A History of Architecture,
London: Butterworths, 1987, page 1352 places more significance on the building’s location than on the structure.

3.
Jean-Jacques Nattier (editor),
Orientations: Collected Writings of Pierre Boulez,
London: Faber, 1986, pages 11–12. Translated by Martin Cooper.

4.
Various authors,
History of World Architecture,
London: Academy Editions, 1980, page 378.

5.
Silver, Op.
cit.,
pages
39ff.

6.
Ibid.,
pages 6 and 44–47.

7.
Ibid.,
page 49.

8.
Ibid.,
page 126.

9.
See: Nattier (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 26 for other regulars.

10.
For some of Boulez’s contacts with Messaian, see Jean-Jacques Nattier (editor),
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pages 126–128.

11.
Paul Griffiths,
Modem Music, Op. cit.,
page 136.

12.
Ibid.,
pages 160–161.

13.
Ibid.,
page 163.

14.
Boulez was close to Cage. See: Jean-Jacques Nattier (editor),
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence, Op. cit., passim.

15.
Nattier (editor), Orientations, Op. cit., page 25.

16.
Times Literary Supplement, 6 May 1977.

17.
Nattier (editor),
Orientations, Op. cit.,
pages 492–494.

18.
Philip Julien,
Jacques Lacan’s Return to Freud,
New York: New York University Press, 1994. See also: Bice Benvenuto and Roger Kennedy,
The Work of Jacques Lacan,
London: Free Association Books, 1986, pages 223–224.

19.
Jacques Lacan,
Ecrits,
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1966, page 93, ‘Le Stade du miroir comme formateur de la fonction du Je…’

20.
Ibid.,
pages
237fr,
‘Fonction et champ de la parole et du lange en psychoanalyse.’

21.
Benvenuto and Kennedy,
Op. cit.,
pages 166— 167; Julien,
Op. cit.,
pages 178ff.

22.
Quentin Skinner (editor),
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, paperback 1990, page 143.

23.
Didier Eribon,
Michel Foucault,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991, Faber 1992, paperback 1993, pages 35–37 and 202. Translator: Betsy Wing.

24.
David Macey,
The Lives of Michel Foucault,
London: Hutchinson/Radius, 1993, pages 219–220.

25.
Eribon, Op.
cit.,
pages 201ff.

26.
Mark Philp, ‘Michel Foucault’, in Skinner (editor), Op.
cit.,
pages 67–68.
Ibid.,
chapter 18: ‘We are all ruled.’

27.
Mark Philp, ‘Michel Foucault’, in Skinner (editor),
Op. cit.,
page 74. See also pages 70–71 for where Foucault argues that the human sciences are often rooted in ‘unsavoury origins.’ This is an excellently clear summary.

28.
Eribon, Op.
cit.,
pages 269ft. And Philp,
Op. cit.,
pages 74–76 for ‘power relations,’ 78 for our ‘patternless’ condition.

29.
Jean Piaget,
Structuralism,
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Translator: Chaninah Maschler.

30.
Piaget, Op.
cit.,
page 68.

31.
Ibid.,
page 62.

32.
Ibid.,
page 103.

33.
Ibid.,
page 117.

34.
David Hoy, ‘Derrida’, in Quentin Skinner (editor),
Op. cit.,
page 45.

35.
Christopher Johnson,
Derrida,
London: Phoenix, 1997, page 6.

36.
Ibid.,
page 7.

37.
Geoffrey Benington and Jacques Derrida,
Jacques Derrida,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, pages 42–43. See also the physical layout of this book as it reflects some of Derrida’s ideas. Johnson, Op.
cit.,
page 10.

38.
Johnson, Op.
cit.,
page 4.

39.
Ibid.,
page 28.

40.
Benington and Derrida, Op.
cit.,
pages 133— 148.

41.
Johnson, Op.
cit.,
pages 51ff, Hoy, Op.
cit.,
pages 47ff.

42.
Ibid.,
page 51.

43.
Benington and Derrida, Op.
cit.,
pages 23–42.

44.
See the essay
‘Differance’
in Jacques Derrida,
Margins of Philosophy,
London: Harvester Press, 1982, pages 3–27.

45.
Cantor,
Op. cit.,
pages 304–305; see also Susan James, ‘Louis Althusser,’ in Skinner (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 151.

46.
Susan James, ‘Louis Althusser’, in Skinner (editor),
Op. cit.,
pages 144 and 148.

47.
Louis Althusser,
Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays,
London: New Left Books, 1971, translated from the French by Ben Brewster, pages 135ff and 161–168. See also: Kevin McDonnell and Kevin Robins, ‘Marxist Cultural Theory: The Althusserian Smokescreen,’ in Simon Clark
et al.
(editors),
One-Dimensional Marxism: Althusser and the Politics of Culture, London and New York: Alison & Busby, 1980, pages 157ff. James, Op. cit., pages 152–153.

48.
For a detailed discussion of ideology and its applications, see: Louis Althusser,
Philosophy and Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists,
London and New York: Verso, 1990, pages 73ft

49.
Anthony Giddens, ‘Jurgen Habermas’, in Skinner (editor), Op.
cit.,
page 123.

50.
See: Jürgen Habermas,
Post-Metaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays,
London: Polity, 1993, especially essay three. Giddens, in Skinner (editor), Op.
cit.,
pages 124–125.

51.
Giddens, Op.
cit.,
page 126.

52.
Rick Roderick, Habermas and the Foundations of Critical Theory, London: Macmillan, 1986, page 56.

53.
Giddens,
Op. cit.,
page 127.

54.
Ibid.

55.
Louis-Jean Calvet,
Roland Barthes: A Biography,
London: Polity, 1994. Translator: Sarah Wykes, especially pages 97ff and 135ff.

56.
Roland Barthes,
Mythologies,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972, paperback 1993. Selected and translated by Annette Lavers.

57.
Ibid.,
page 98.

58.
Roland Barthes,
Image, Music, Text,
London: Fontana, 1977, pages 142ff Translator: Stephen Heath.

59.
Roland Barthes,
The Pleasure of the Text,
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975, page 16. Translator: Richard Miller.

60.
Ibid.,
page 17.

61.
Barthes’ biographer asks the pointed question as to who will be remembered best out of the two French intellectuals who died in 1984 – Barthes or Sartre? The latter was undoubtedly more famous in life but … See Calvet, Op.
cit.,
page 266.

62.
Thompson and Bordwell,
Film History, Op. cit.,
page 493.

63.
Robin Buss,
French Film Noir,
London and New York: Marion Boyars, 1994, pages 139–141 and 506–509.

64.
Ibid.,
pages 510–512.

65.
Truffaut thought he was heavy-handed. See: Gilles Jacob and Claude de Givray,
Francois Truffaut – Letters,
London: Faber, 1989, page 187. Thompson and Bordwell,
Op. cit.,
page 511.

66.
For a filli list see the table in Thompson and Bordwell,
Op. cit.,
page 522.

67.
At one point, Jerome Robbins wanted to make a ballet out of ‘400 Blows’. See Jacob and Givray (editors),
Op. cit.,
page 158.

68.
Thompson and Bordwell, Op.
cit.,
pages 523— 525.

69.
Ibid.,
pages 528–529.

70.
Ambiguous yes, but Truffaut thought the film had been well understood by audiences. See: Jacob and Givray (editors),
Op. cit.,
page 426. See also: Thompson and Bordwell, Op.
cit.,
pages 524–525.

71.
See Richard Roud,
Jean-Luc Godard,
London: Secker & Warburg in association with BFI, 1967,
page 48, for Godard’s philosophy on story-telling. James Pallot and Jacob Levich (editors),
The Fifth Virgin Film Guide,
London: Virgin, 1996, page 83.

72.
Thompson and Bordwell,
Op.
cit., pages 519–522.

73.
Ibid.,
page 529. Pallot and Levich,
Op. cit.,
page 376, point out that at another level it is a parody of ‘Hollywood love triangles.’

74.
Pallot and Levich,
Op. cit.,
page 341.

75.
Ibid.,
page 758.

76.
For a discussion of the ‘boundaries abandoned’ in this film, see: Colin McCabe
et al., Godard, Images, Sounds, Politics,
London: BFI/Macmillan, 1980, pages 39. See also: Louis-Jean Calvet’s biography of Barthes (note 55 above), pages 140–141.

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