Overview
This non-technical introduction to modern European intellectual history traces the evolution of ideas in Europe from the turn of the 19th century to the modern day. Placing particular emphasis on the huge technological and scientific change that has taken place over the last two centuries, David Galaty shows how intellectual life has been driven by the conditions and problems posed by this world of technology. In everything from theories of beauty to studies in metaphysics, the technologically-based modern world has stimulated a host of competing theories and intellectual systems, often built around the opposing notions of ‘the power of the individual’ versus collectivist ideals like community, nation, tradition and transcendent experience. In an accessible, jargon-free style, Modern European Intellectual History unpicks these debates and historically analyses how thought has developed in Europe since the time of the French Revolution. Among other topics, the book explores: * The Kantian Revolution * Feminism and the Suffrage Movement * Socialism and Marxism * Nationalism * Structuralism * Quantum theory * Developments in the Arts * Postmodernism * Big Data and the Cyber Century Highly illustrated with 80 images and 10 tables, and further supported by an online Instructor's Guidet, this is the most important student resource on modern European intellectual history available today.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Emeritus David Galaty (Lewis and Clark College, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781350105393
ISBN 10: 1350105392
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 24 February 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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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).
