Synopses & Reviews
For courses in European Intellectual History. An exploration of the major issues in thought -- from the French Revolution to Structuralism and beyond. |
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-363) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Intellectual History as a Discipline.
The Inheritance.
The Great Divorce.
1. Romanticism and Revolution.
2. The Age of Ideologies, 1815—1848.
3. Ideas of Progress: Hegel, Comte, Marx.
4. Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith.
5. From Naturalism to Modernism.
6. Social and Political Thought at the End of the Nineteenth Century.
7. The West in Trouble: World War I and Its Aftermath.
8. From Depression to War in the 1930s.
9. World War II and Its Aftermath.
10. Rebellions and Reactions, 1968—1980.
11. The Deconstructive 1980s.
Conclusion.
Suggested Readings.
Index.