Modern European thought : continuity and change in ideas, 1600-1950 / Franklin L. Baumer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumer, Franklin L. (Franklin Le Van), 1913-1990.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--History.

Philosophy, Modern.

History.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Europe.

Intellectual life.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 541 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations. ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, [1977]

Contents:

I. Prologue: The history of ideas; The perennial questions; From being to becoming

II. The Seventeenth Century: Being over becoming; A new nature; Faith and reason; The greatness and wretchedness of man; The mortal God; Ancients and Moderns

III. The Eighteenth Century: Being and becoming; The proper study of mankind; Theism and Atheism; Systems of nature; Liberty and equality; The philosophy of history

IV. The Nineteenth Century: Becoming over being; The romantic world; The new enlightenment; The evolutionary world; Fin-de-siècle

V. The Twentieth Century: The triumph of becoming; Problematic man; Eclipse of God; The mysterious universe; The open society and its enemies; The decline of the West

VI. Epilogue.

Notes:

"This book is for anyone interested in ideas and their history."--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-523) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".

Potok Collection has numerous underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0023065001

0023064501

OCLC:

2875069