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Author:   Professor Emeritus David Galaty (Lewis and Clark College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781350105409

ISBN 10:   1350105406
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Images List of Charts and Diagrams 1. The Intellectual World Around 1800 2. Individuals and Units: The Individual as a Source of Reason and Morality 3. From Community to God: Collective Wisdom and Revolutionary Transformation 4. Mechanizing the Human World 5. Socialisms and Marxism 6. Darwin and Darwinisms 7. Nationalism and the Definition of Human Differences 8. Freud, Weber, and Others: Redefining Individuals and Society 9. Searching for New Deep Realities: New Units, New Forms, New Worlds 10. Conceiving a New World Order 11. The New World of Science and Technology at Mid-Century 12. New Anomalies and Challenges 13. Non-Rational Rationality 14. The Cyber-Century Approaching 15. Epilogue Selected Further Reading Index

Reviews

This book is a map or a story, but more importantly an introduction to the possibility of remaking the ideas that shape us through a study of their history. Seated in Europe but examining the past two hundred years in order to understand how ideas have been materialised and then helped change thought anew in unexpected ways, it begins simply with well-told stories and vignettes. Yet always aware of oppositions, especially between individualisms and collectivisms, and shifting between political, economic and philosophical thought as well as science, technology, literature, poetry and art, the book gradually builds up the kind of rich and subtle understanding that provides wisdom. David Galaty achieves this by exploring different voices and tracking the tensions of imperialism, gender and racialised visions, as well as the revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. We need both the play of counterpoints and the unusually searching and comprehensive perspective that Galaty offers, and it is an unexpected pleasure to find this conveyed in such clear prose. As the book unfolds and diverse perspectives layer into one another, you will find yourself admiring the work of someone who thinks carefully on an unusually broad scale. * Richard Staley, Hans Rausing Lecturer and Reader in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK *

Author Information

David Galaty is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA and Assistant Professor with Term at Lewis and Clark College, USA. He is the author of Wider than the Sky (1998) and co-editor of Discovering Criminology (1993) and Revolutions in Art and Ideas at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1994).

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