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European thought and culture, 1350-1992 : burdens of knowing / Michael J. Sauter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sauter, Michael J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, European--History.
- Philosophy, European.
- History.
- Place (Philosophy)--History.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Civilization.
- Intellectual life.
- Europe--Intellectual life--History.
- Europe.
- Europe--Civilization--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 485 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Michael J. Sauter is a professor of history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of Visions of the Enlightenment: the Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia (2009) and The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos and God (2018).
- Contents:
- Introduction: Nosce Te Ipsum
- Imagining Europe
- Ancient thought and the Medieval synthesis I
- Ancient thought and the Medieval synthesis II
- Borrowed syntheses-Medieval Muslim and Jewish thought
- Post-Medieval syntheses
- The spatial Reformation
- Humanism and the Southern Renaissance
- Humanism and the Northern Renaissance
- The Protestant Revolution
- Tolerance and the culture of doubt
- Law, God, and magic
- A new certainty
- The Scientific Revolution I
- The Scientific Revolution II
- Jesuits, Jansenists, and other heretics
- Science as religion
- From nature to state
- Platos many and varied
- A world of numbers
- The invention of history
- The power of reason
- Progressive intolerance
- The production of isms
- The Industrial Revolution and its discontents
- Space and race
- From urbanization to urbanity
- Novels, writers, and readers
- Sex, gender, and the critical mind
- Prophecy from the margins
- Situating the social
- The new social science
- The First World War and European culture
- The science of rootlessness
- The vacuum of knowledge and its isms
- From the ashes
- Conclusion: Good-bye to all that.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sauter, Michael J.. European thought and culture, 1350-1992
- ISBN:
- 9781003023593
- 1003023592
- 9781000395495
- 1000395499
- 9781000395457
- 1000395456
- Publisher Number:
- 40030692265
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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