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

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is a comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century, offering a multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 522 pages
Publication date: 13 January 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is a thorough and authoritative examination of the ideas, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual landscape in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Representing both individual figures and the contexts in which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear and 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.

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is a comprehensive and authoritative exploration of the themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

It represents both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, with each essay written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field. The book offers both originality and interpretive insight, surveying late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history.

The first volume focuses on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life, spanning twenty chapters and covering figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, as well as major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism, and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence.

Rather than presenting a single master narrative of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon establish a multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age. This approach offers a more comprehensive understanding of the complex and diverse intellectual landscape of Europe in this period.

Weight: 860g
Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781107483767