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

Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781107097759
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108613866
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 German Idealism: The Thought of Modernity
• 2 European Romanticism: Ambivalent Responses to the Sense of a New Epoch
• 3 History, Tradition, and Skepticism: The Patterns of Nineteenth-Century Theology
• 4 The Young Hegelians: Philosophy as Critical Praxis
• 5 Utilitarianism, God, and Moral Obligation from Locke to Sidgwick
• 6 Capital, Class, and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Political Economy and Its Imaginary
• 7 Positivism in European Intellectual, Political, and Religious Life
• 8 European Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century
• 9 European Socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s
• 10 Conservatism: The Utility of History and the Case against Rationalist Radicalism
• 11 The Woman Question: Liberal and Socialist Critiques of the Status of Women
• 12 Darwinism and Social Darwinism
• 13 Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche
• 14 Philology, Language, and the Constitution of Meaning and Human Communities
• 15 Decadence and the ''Second Modernity”
• 16 Nihilism, Pessimism, and the Conditions of Modernity
• 17 Civilization, Culture, and Race: Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
• 18 The Varieties of Nationalist Thought
• 19 Ideas of Empire: Civilization, Race, and Global Hierarchy
• 20 Rethinking Revolution: Radicalism at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century
• Index