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"""A remarkable work: intellectually challenging and engaging, wide-ranging and deeply thought-through, marked by incisive analysis and luminous insights. This distinguished and important book should be of interest to people in a wide variety of fields-intellectual history (European and American), cultural studies, sociology, psychology, and philosophy."" * Jerrold Seigel, author of <i>The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century</i> * ""There are not many people alive today who could produce a book like this one, which calls on a vast range of learning that can only be acquired over a lifetime of reading and scholarly reflection. It is sweeping in its scope and steeped in erudition. Gerald Izenberg is a masterful explicator of difficult authors and texts."" * Darrin McMahon, author of <i>Divine Fury: A History of Genius</i> *"

A remarkable work: intellectually challenging and engaging, wide-ranging and deeply thought-through, marked by incisive analysis and luminous insights. This distinguished and important book should be of interest to people in a wide variety of fields-intellectual history (European and American), cultural studies, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. -Jerrold Seigel, author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century There are not many people alive today who could produce a book like this one, which calls on a vast range of learning that can only be acquired over a lifetime of reading and scholarly reflection. It is sweeping in its scope and steeped in erudition. Gerald Izenberg is a masterful explicator of difficult authors and texts. -Darrin McMahon, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius

""A remarkable work: intellectually challenging and engaging, wide-ranging and deeply thought-through, marked by incisive analysis and luminous insights. This distinguished and important book should be of interest to people in a wide variety of fields-intellectual history (European and American), cultural studies, sociology, psychology, and philosophy."" * Jerrold Seigel, author of <i>The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century</i> * ""There are not many people alive today who could produce a book like this one, which calls on a vast range of learning that can only be acquired over a lifetime of reading and scholarly reflection. It is sweeping in its scope and steeped in erudition. Gerald Izenberg is a masterful explicator of difficult authors and texts."" * Darrin McMahon, author of <i>Divine Fury: A History of Genius</i> *

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Gerald Izenberg is Professor Emeritus of History, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802.

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