The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
Author | : Peter E. Gordon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108638609 |
ISBN-13 | : 1108638600 |
Rating | : 4/5 (600 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century written by Peter E. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism, , Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.