The Crisis Of The European Mind

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590176399

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Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developments in the sciences, arts, philosophy, and philology came to undermine the stable foundations of the classical world, with its commitment to tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage. Hazard shows how travelers’ tales and archaeological investigation widened European awareness and acceptance of cultural difference; how the radical rationalism of Spinoza and Richard Simon’s new historical exegesis of the Bible called into question the revealed truths of religion; how the Huguenot Pierre Bayle’s critical dictionary of ideas paved the way for Voltaire and the Enlightenment, even as the empiricism of Locke encouraged a new attention to sensory experience that led to Rousseau and romanticism. Hazard’s range of knowledge is vast, and whether the subject is operas, excavations, or scientific experiments his brilliant style and powers of description bring to life the thinkers who thought up the modern world.

Author : Phyllis Mack,Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527023

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Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe by Phyllis Mack,Margaret C. Jacob Pdf

Essays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.

Author : J. W. Burrow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300214642

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The Crisis of Reason by J. W. Burrow Pdf

This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War. Broader than a straight survey, deeper and richer than a textbook, this work seeks to place the reader in the position of an informed eavesdropper on the intellectual conversations of the past. J. W. Burrow first outlines the intellectual context of the mid-nineteenth century, using ideas taken from physics, social evolution, and social Darwinism, and anxieties about modernity and personal identity, to explore the impact of science and social thought on European intellectual life. The discussion encompasses powerful and fashionable concepts in evolution, art, myth, the occult, and the unconscious mind; the rise of the great cities of Berlin, Paris, and London; and the work of literary writers, philosophers, and composers. Most of the great intellectual figures of the age—and many of the lesser known—populate the book, among them Mill, Bakunin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Renan, Pater, Proust, Clough, Flaubert, Wagner, and Wilde. The author wears his erudition lightly, and this distinguished book will be both entertaining and accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Author : Mark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457271

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Europe in Crisis by Mark Hewitson,Matthew D'Auria Pdf

The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004280052

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Calvinism and the Making of the European Mind by Anonim Pdf

Calvinism must be assigned a significant place among the forces that have shaped modern European culture. Even now, despite its history of religious fragmentation and secularization, Europe continues to bear the marks of a pervasive Calvinist ethos. The character of that ethos is, however, difficult to pin down. In this volume, many of the traditional scholarly conundrums about the relationship between Calvinism and the cultural history of Europe are revisited and re-investigated, to see what new light can be shed on them. For example, how has the ethos of Calvinism, or more broadly the Reformed tradition, affected economic thinking and practice, the development of the sciences, views on religious toleration, or the constitution of European polities? In general, what kind of transformations did Calvinism’s distinct spirituality bring about? Such questions demand painstaking and detailed scholarly work, a fine sample of which is published in this volume.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745681535

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The Crisis of the European Union by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s constructive engagement with the European project at a time when the crisis of the eurozone is threatening the very existence of the European Union. There is a growing realization that the European treaty needs to be revised in order to deal with the structural defects of monetary union, but a clear perspective for the future is missing. Drawing on his analysis of European unification as a process in which international treaties have progressively taken on features of a democratic constitution, Habermas explains why the current proposals to transform the system of European governance into one of executive federalism is a mistake. His central argument is that the European project must realize its democratic potential by evolving from an international into a cosmopolitan community. The opening essay on the role played by the concept of human dignity in the genealogy of human rights in the modern era throws further important light on the philosophical foundations of Habermas’s theory of how democratic political institutions can be extended beyond the level of nation-states. Now that the question of Europe and its future is once again at the centre of public debate, this important intervention by one of the greatest thinkers of our time will be of interest to a wide readership.

Author : Dermot Moran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139560368

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Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Dermot Moran Pdf

The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Eighteenth century
ISBN : 0823212742

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The European Mind by Paul Hazard Pdf

A study of Enlightenment thought between 1690 and 1715, this book covers the subject in such a way as to be an introduction to the wide range of radical, reactionary and controversial ideas which so characterize this period of history. The book was originally published in 1935 in French and accounts for the crisis of the European mind by describing the religious, philosophical, moral, scientific and artistic literature of the period.

Author : Edmund Husserl
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 081010458X

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The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl Pdf

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl provides not only a history of philosophy but a philosophy of history. As he says in Part I, "The genuine spiritual struggles of European humanity as such take the form of struggles between the philosophies, that is, between the skeptical philosophies--or nonphilosophies, which retain the word but not the task--and the actual and still vital philosophies. But the vitality of the latter consists in the fact that they are struggling for their true and genuine meaning and thus for the meaning of a genuine humanity."

Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521398290

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The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century by Owen Chadwick Pdf

Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century.

Author : Paul Hazard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Eighteenth century
ISBN : WISC:89000497438

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The European Mind by Paul Hazard Pdf

Author : Daron Acemoglu,Alberto Alesina,Christopher J. Bickerton
Publisher : La fabrica
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8416248427

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The Search for Europe by Daron Acemoglu,Alberto Alesina,Christopher J. Bickerton Pdf

This volume is now the eighth in the annual series sponsored by BBVA as part of its OpenMind initiative, which is devoted to disseminating knowledge on key issues of our time. The Search for Europe analyses the present and future of the old continent and its integration project, surely the most ambitious political and economic integration project ever attempted in history, a benchmark for similar processes in other regions. The book is divided into three main sections: "The economic foundations of the European project", "Europe and its nations: Politics, society and culture", and "The unresolved Limits of Europe and the new global powers". It features pieces written by international experts such as Javier Solana, Barry Eichengreen, Philip Cooke, Bichara Khader, Vivien Ann Schmidt, John Peet and Thomas Christiansen, among others.

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691152608

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A Revolution of the Mind by Jonathan Israel Pdf

Declaration of Human Rights.

Author : Ċetta Mainwaring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192580085

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At Europe's Edge by Ċetta Mainwaring Pdf

The Mediterranean Sea is now the deadliest region in the world for migrants. Although the death toll has been rising for many years, the EU response remains fragmented and short sighted. Politicians frame these migration flows as an unprecedented crisis and emphasize migration control at the EU's external boundaries. In this context, At Europe's Edge investigates why the EU prioritizes the fortification of its external borders; why migrants nevertheless continue to cross the Mediterranean and to die at sea; and how EU member states on the southern periphery respond to their new role as migration gatekeepers. The book addresses these questions by examining the relationship between the EU and Malta, a small state with an outsized role in migration politics as EU policies place it at the crosshairs of migration flows and controls. The chapters combine ethnographic methods with macro-level analyses to weave together policymaker, practitioner, and migrant experiences, and demonstrate how the Mediterranean is an important space for the contested construction of 'Europe'. This book provides rich insight into the unexpected level of influence Malta exerts on EU migration governance, as well as the critical role migrants and their clandestine journeys play in animating EU and Maltese migration policies, driving international relations, and producing Malta's political power. By centring on the margins, the book pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.

Author : Barrie Cadwallader
Publisher : Cardiff : University of Wales Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000177160

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Crisis of the European Mind by Barrie Cadwallader Pdf