European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
1st Edition
Published on 8. October 2018
320 pages
978-0-300-21291-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
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Persons
Frank M. Turner (1944-2010) was John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Director of the Beinecke Library, and University Librarian, all at Yale University. Richard A. Lofthouse is editor of Oxford Today and formerly lecturer in modern history, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Content
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- Dedication page
- Plates
- 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
- The Press
- Dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, and textbooks of language
- National political histories
- Histories of literature and art
- Museums - both national and regional
- School systems and universities
- Racial theories
- CHAPTER 11 RACE AND ANTI-SEMITISM
- Social Darwinism
- Eugenics
- 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
