European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche / Frank M. Turner; Richard A. Lofthouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Frank M., Author.

Contributor:

Lofthouse, Richard A., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--History--18th century.

Civilization, Western.

Civilization, Western--History--19th century.

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2015.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

EDITOR'S PREFACE

CHAPTER 1: ROUSSEAU'S CHALLENGE TO MODERNITY

CHAPTER 2: TOCQUEVILLE AND LIBERTY

CHAPTER 3: J.S. MILL AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER 4: THE TURN TO SUBJECTIVITY

CHAPTER 5: MEDIEVALISM AND THE INVENTION OF THE RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER 6: NATURE HISTORICISED

CHAPTER 7: DARWIN AND CREATION

CHAPTER 8: MARX AND THE TRANSCENDENT WORKING CLASS

CHAPTER 9: THE CULT OF THE ARTIST

CHAPTER 10: NATIONALISM

CHAPTER 11: RACE AND ANTI-SEMITISM

CHAPTER 12: WAGNER

CHAPTER 13: THE IDEOLOGY OF SEPARATE GENDER SPHERES

CHAPTER 14: OLD FAITHS AND NEW

CHAPTER 15: NIETZSCHE

NOTES

GLOSSARY OF NAMES

FURTHER READING

ILLUSTRATIONS

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300212914

0300212917

OCLC:

903963758