The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century

Cambridge University Press, 8/29/2019
EAN 9781107097759, ISBN10: 1107097754

Hardcover, 520 pages, 23.4 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This first volume surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life. Spanning twenty chapters, it covers figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.

Introduction Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon
1. German idealism
the thought of modernity Terry Pinkard
2. European romanticism
ambivalent responses to the sense of a new epoch Nicholas Halmi
3. History, tradition and skepticism
the patterns of nineteenth-century theology David Fergusson
4. The young Hegelians
philosophy as critical praxis Warren Breckman
5. Utilitarianism, God, and moral obligation from Locke to Sidgwick Philip Schofield
6. Capital, class, and empire
nineteenth-century political economy and its imaginary Francesco Boldizzoni
7. Positivism in European intellectual, political, and religious life Mary Pickering
8. European liberalism in the nineteenth century Jerrold Seigel
9. European socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s Gareth Stedman Jones
10. Conservatism
the utility of history and the case against rationalist radicalism Jerry Muller
11. The woman question
liberal and socialist critiques of the status of women Naomi Andrews
12. Darwinism and social Darwinism Gregory Radick
13. Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche John Toews
14. Philology, language, and the constitution of meaning and human communities Tuska Benes
15. Decadence and the 'second modernity' Mary Gluck
16. Nihilism, pessimism, and the conditions of modernity Christian Emden
17. Civilisation, culture and race: anthropology in the nineteenth century Adam Kuper
18. The varieties of nationalist thought Erica Benner
19. Ideas of empire
civilization, race, and global hierarchy Jennifer Pitts
20. Rethinking revolution
radicalism at the end of the long nineteenth century Claudia Verhoeven.