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Author Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010, author.

Title European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche / Frank M. Turner ; edited by Richard A. Lofthouse
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Rousseau's challenge to modernity -- Tocqueville and liberty -- J.S. Mill and the nineteenth century -- The turn to subjectivity -- Medievalism and the invention of the Renaissance -- Nature historicised -- Darwin and creation -- Marx and the transcendent working class -- The cult of the artist -- Nationalism -- Race and anti-Semitism -- Wagner -- The ideology of separate gender spheres -- Old faiths and new -- Nietzsche
Summary One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures—lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon—distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. Richard A. Lofthouse, one of Turner’s former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of modern European ideas. Moreover, it offers a fine example of how intellectual history should be taught: rooted firmly in historical and biographical evidence. -- Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Civilization, Western -- History -- 18th century
Civilization, Western -- History -- 19th century
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
HISTORY -- Civilization.
HISTORY -- World.
Civilization, Western
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Modern
Geestesgeschiedenis.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
Subject Europe
Europa
Europa.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lofthouse, Richard A., editor.
ISBN 0300212917
9780300212914
9781322880730
1322880735
0300207298
9780300207293