Peter Gay

Freud: A Life for Our Time is a 1988 biography of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud by historian Peter Gay, based partly on new material that has become available since the publication of Ernest Jones' The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. The book has been criticized by several authors skeptical of psychoanalysis, but …

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master …