The Crisis Of The European Mind

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176197
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the European Mind written by Paul Hazard and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developments in the sciences, arts, philosophy, and philology came to undermine the stable foundations of the classical world, with its commitment to tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage. Hazard shows how travelers’ tales and archaeological investigation widened European awareness and acceptance of cultural difference; how the radical rationalism of Spinoza and Richard Simon’s new historical exegesis of the Bible called into question the revealed truths of religion; how the Huguenot Pierre Bayle’s critical dictionary of ideas paved the way for Voltaire and the Enlightenment, even as the empiricism of Locke encouraged a new attention to sensory experience that led to Rousseau and romanticism. Hazard’s range of knowledge is vast, and whether the subject is operas, excavations, or scientific experiments his brilliant style and powers of description bring to life the thinkers who thought up the modern world.

Author : Phyllis Mack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521527026
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Phyllis Mack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.

Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398299
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century written by Owen Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745681530
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the European Union written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s constructive engagement with the European project at a time when the crisis of the eurozone is threatening the very existence of the European Union. There is a growing realization that the European treaty needs to be revised in order to deal with the structural defects of monetary union, but a clear perspective for the future is missing. Drawing on his analysis of European unification as a process in which international treaties have progressively taken on features of a democratic constitution, Habermas explains why the current proposals to transform the system of European governance into one of executive federalism is a mistake. His central argument is that the European project must realize its democratic potential by evolving from an international into a cosmopolitan community. The opening essay on the role played by the concept of human dignity in the genealogy of human rights in the modern era throws further important light on the philosophical foundations of Habermas’s theory of how democratic political institutions can be extended beyond the level of nation-states. Now that the question of Europe and its future is once again at the centre of public debate, this important intervention by one of the greatest thinkers of our time will be of interest to a wide readership.

Author : J. W. Burrow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214642
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Reason written by J. W. Burrow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War. Broader than a straight survey, deeper and richer than a textbook, this work seeks to place the reader in the position of an informed eavesdropper on the intellectual conversations of the past. J. W. Burrow first outlines the intellectual context of the mid-nineteenth century, using ideas taken from physics, social evolution, and social Darwinism, and anxieties about modernity and personal identity, to explore the impact of science and social thought on European intellectual life. The discussion encompasses powerful and fashionable concepts in evolution, art, myth, the occult, and the unconscious mind; the rise of the great cities of Berlin, Paris, and London; and the work of literary writers, philosophers, and composers. Most of the great intellectual figures of the age—and many of the lesser known—populate the book, among them Mill, Bakunin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Renan, Pater, Proust, Clough, Flaubert, Wagner, and Wilde. The author wears his erudition lightly, and this distinguished book will be both entertaining and accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004280057
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calvinism and the Making of the European Mind written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calvinism and the Making of the European Mind traces the interplay between Calvinism’s transformative spirituality and the rise of modern Europe. How did the Reformed tradition affect the sciences, economic practices, views on religious toleration and the constitution of European polities?

Author : Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457276
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe in Crisis written by Mark Hewitson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Mind written by Paul Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823212743
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Mind written by Paul Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Enlightenment thought between 1690 and 1715, this book covers the subject in such a way as to be an introduction to the wide range of radical, reactionary and controversial ideas which so characterize this period of history. The book was originally published in 1935 in French and accounts for the crisis of the European mind by describing the religious, philosophical, moral, scientific and artistic literature of the period.

Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Crown Forum
ISBN 13 : 1400097703
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menace in Europe written by Claire Berlinski and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative study of the critical problems that are crippling Europe and causing an increasing anti-Americanism looks at the return of the ethnic hatred, class divisions, and war that previously wreaked havoc on Europe, as well as the rise of such new issues as declining birthrates, growing Islamic fundamentalism, and an unsustainable economic model. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.