Title The crisis of reason : European thought, 1848-1914 / J.W. Burrow

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations Series The Yale intellectual history of the West Yale intellectual history of the West. Contents 1. The stuff of the world and the promises of science -- The new generation -- The conservation of matter and energy ; materialist reductionism -- The enigma of consciousness and the impact of evolution -- The claims of science : science as vocation -- The reaction against materialism : phenomenalism, pragmatism and pan-psychism -- 2. Social evolution and the sciences of culture -- A classified world -- Social evolution as the division of labour -- Sciences of religion and culture : France, Britain, Germany -- Social Darwinism, eugenics and race -- 3. Community and modernity -- The market and modernity -- Community : the mar, the mir and the guild -- The ethical state -- Nation and state in Germany -- Nationalism and the critique of modernity : myth and charisma -- 4. The elusive self -- The burden of freedom -- 'Character' -- The flux of experience -- The unconscious -- 5. Constructing the self -- Work of art and microcosm -- 'Decadence' and 'life' -- The calling and the deed -- 6. Immanence, revelation and transcendence -- Incarnation -- Myth and revelation -- The occult Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263) and index Notes Print version record Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century. Philosophy, Modern. Philosophy -- history HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Intellectual life Philosophy, Modern Geestesgeschiedenis. SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729 Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730 Subject Europe Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300214642 0300214642 0300083904 9780300083903

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