David Galaty, „Modern European Intellectual History: Individuals, Groupings, and Technological Change, 1800-2000“
This non-technical introduction to modern European intellectual history traces the evolution of ideas in Europe from the turn of the 19th century to the modern day.
Placing particular emphasis on the huge technological and scientific change that has taken place over the last two centuries, David Galaty shows how intellectual life has been driven by the conditions and problems posed by this world of technology. In everything from theories of beauty to studies in metaphysics, the technologically-based modern world has stimulated a host of competing theories and intellectual systems, often built around the opposing notions of ‘the power of the individual’ versus collectivist ideals like community, nation, tradition and transcendent experience. In an accessible, jargon-free style, Modern European Intellectual History unpicks these debates and historically analyses how thought has developed in Europe since the time of the French Revolution.
Among other topics, the book explores:
* The Kantian Revolution
* Feminism and the Suffrage Movement
* Socialism and Marxism
* Nationalism
* Structuralism
* Quantum theory
* Developments in the Arts
* Postmodernism
* Big Data and the Cyber Century
Highly illustrated with 80 images and 10 tables, and further supported by an online Instructor’s Guide, this is the most important student resource on modern European intellectual history available today.
Table of Contents
List of Images
List of Charts and Diagrams
1. The Intellectual World Around 1800
2. Individuals and Units: The Individual as a Source of Reason and Morality
3. From Community to God: Collective Wisdom and Revolutionary Transformation
4. Mechanizing the Human World
5. Socialisms and Marxism
6. Darwin and Darwinisms
7. Nationalism and the Definition of Human Differences
8. Freud, Weber, and Others: Redefining Individuals and Society
9. Searching for New Deep Realities: New Units, New Forms, New Worlds
10. Conceiving a New World Order
11. The New World of Science and Technology at Mid-Century
12. New Anomalies and Challenges
13. Non-Rational Rationality
14. The Cyber-Century Approaching
15. Epilogue
Selected Further Reading
Index
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Format: Hardback
Edition: 1st
Extent: 432
ISBN: 9781350105409
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations: 81 bw illus
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-european-intellectual-history-9781350105409/