Crisis of Reason European Thought, 1848-1914

Name: Crisis of Reason European Thought, 1848-1914
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ISBN: 9780300097184

ISBN-10: 0300097182

ISBN-13: 9780300097184

Edition: 2002

Authors: J. W. Burrow

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Burrow examines the impact of science and social thought on European intellectual life prior to World War I. He considers ideas in physics, social evolution and social Darwinism, and anxieties about modernity and personal identity.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

J.W. Burrow was, until his recent retirement, professor of European thought at Oxford University.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements


Prologue: 1848-49: The Disillusionment of the Intellectuals



The Stuff of the World and the Promises of Science



The New Generation



The Conservation of Matter and Energy; Materialist Reductionism



The Enigma of Consciousness and the Impact of Evolution



The Claims of Science: Science as Vocation



The Reaction against Materialism: Phenomenalism, Pragmatism and Pan-psychism



Social Evolution and the Sciences of Culture



A Classified World



Social Evolution as the Division of Labour



Sciences of Religion and Culture: France, Britain, Germany



Social Darwinism, Eugenics and Race



Community and Modernity



The Market and Modernity



Community: The Mark, the Mir and the Guild



The Ethical State



Nation and State in Germany



Nationalism and the Critique of Modernity: Myth and Charisma



The Elusive Self



The Burden of Freedom



'Character'



The Flux of Experience



The Unconscious



Constructing the Self



Work of Art and Microcosm



'Decadence' and 'Life'



The Calling and the Deed



Immanence, Revelation and Transcendence



Incarnation



Myth and Revelation



The Occult


Epilogue: Avant-garde


Select Bibliography


Index