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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Civilization, Western -- History -- 18th century
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Civilization, Western -- History -- 19th century
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Civilization, Western
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Intellectual life
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Philosophy, Modern
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Geestesgeschiedenis.
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
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Europe
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Europa
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Europa.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lofthouse, Richard A., editor.
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ISBN |
0300212917 |
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9780300212914 |
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9781322880730 |
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1322880735 |
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0300207298 |
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9780300207293 |
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