The Broken Image Author:Floyd W. Matson In this arresting essay in the history of ideas, Floyd W. Matson synthesizes ideas and developments from the full range of modern thought - physical, biological and social science; philosophy psychology, psychoanalysis and political science - as he probes the history of modern man in search of himself. The "broken image" is man's understanding o... more »f himself, which was fractured by the adoption of classical Newtonian physics as the model for the interpretation of the biological, social and behavioral sciences... [from the back cover]« less