Download or read book Modern European Thought written by Franklin Le Van Baumer and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone interested in ideas and their history. Despite its comprehensiveness, it is not primarily a survey or synthesis but rather an interpretation of modern intellectual history. Its specific purpose is to trace the development of one intriguing theme- perhaps the major theme- in modern man's way fo thinking about himself and his universe. That theme is the sense of becoming rather than being.