Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715

Name: Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715
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ISBN: 9781590176191

ISBN-10: 1590176197

ISBN-13: 9781590176191

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Hazard, Anthony Grafton, J. Lewis May

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Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, andThe Crisis of the European Mindis by common consent his masterwork, an ambitious study in intellectual history whose breadth of learning and authority is widely acknowledged to this day.The period from 1680 to 1715 was a turning point in Western history: the beginning of an intellectual revolution that would lead to the Enlightenment and beyond that to romanticism. With clarity as well as a sharp eye for historical detail, Hazard depicts the progressive erosion of the respect for tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage that had characterized classicism. He shows how a new awareness of the countries beyond…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 8.07" wide x 5.12" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction


Preface



Changing Psychologies



The Ferment Begins



The Old Order Changeth



The Light from the North



Heterodoxy



Pierre Bayle



The war on Tradition



The Rationalists



Miracles Denied: Comets, Oracles and Sorcerers



Richard Simon and Biblical Exegesis



Bossuet at Bay



An Attempt at Reunion and What Came of It



The Task of Reconstruction



Locke's Empiricism



Deism and Natural Religion



Natural Law



Social Morality



Happiness on Earth



Science and Progress



Towards a New Pattern of Humanity



The Feelings and the Imagination



The Muses Are Silent



Pictures, Strange or Beautiful



Laughter and Tears: Opera Triumphant



Influences, National, Popular, and Instinctive



The Psychology of Uneasiness, the Aesthetics of Sentiment, the Metaphysics of Substance and the New Science



Souls of Fire


Conclusion


Index