Modern European Intellectual History Galaty Professor Emeritus David Lewis and Clark College USA
Modern European Intellectual History Galaty Professor Emeritus David Lewis and Clark College USA This non-technical introduction to modern European intellectual history traces the evolution of ideas…
Specifikacia Modern European Intellectual History Galaty Professor Emeritus David Lewis and Clark College USA
Modern European Intellectual History Galaty Professor Emeritus David Lewis and Clark College USA
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 an accessible, jargon-free style, Modern European Intellectual History unpicks these debates and historically analyses how thought 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.