European Intellectual History from Rousseau to NietzscheOne of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures—lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon—distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. Richard A. Lofthouse, one of Turner's former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of modern European ideas. Moreover, it offers a fine example of how intellectual history should be taught: rooted firmly in historical and biographical evidence. |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 ROUSSEAUS CHALLENGE TO MODERNITY | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 TOCQUEVILLE AND LIBERTY | 21 |
CHAPTER 3 JS MILL AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 35 |
CHAPTER 4 THE TURN TO SUBJECTIVITY | 52 |
CHAPTER 5 MEDIEVALISM AND THE INVENTION OF THE RENAISSANCE | 67 |
CHAPTER 6 NATURE HISTORICISED | 84 |
CHAPTER 7 DARWIN AND CREATION | 102 |
CHAPTER 8 MARX AND THE TRANSCENDENT WORKING CLASS | 121 |
CHAPTER 12 WAGNER | 193 |
CHAPTER 13 THE IDEOLOGY OF SEPARATE GENDER SPHERES | 208 |
CHAPTER 14 OLD FAITHS AND NEW | 226 |
CHAPTER 15 NIETZSCHE | 243 |
NOTES | 266 |
GLOSSARY OF NAMES | 273 |
FURTHER READING | 280 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 286 |
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