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The two-volume Cambridge History of European Thought presents a comprehensive survey of the intellectual history of Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present. The two volumes are divided chronologically, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and 'European thought' is broadly interpreted to include all of the central interests of modern European intellectual history, including the history of philosophy, social and political thought, theology and aesthetics, with appropriate recognition of the broader global context. The volumes will not seek to present a 'master narrative' of European thought across this period, but they draw attention to the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life, which particularly informs Volume 1. Volume 2 will explore the 'discourse of crisis' of the twentieth century. This two-volume history brings together the latest scholarship in the area from an international team of experts at all stages of their academic careers.

  • General Editors: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, Peter Gordon, Harvard University, Massachusetts

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2 results in The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
  • Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
  • Edited by Peter E. Gordon, Warren Breckman
  • Published online:
    19 August 2019
    Print publication:
    29 August 2019
  • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism, , Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
  • Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century
  • Edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon
  • Published online:
    15 August 2019
    Print publication:
    29 August 2019
  • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This first volume surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life. Spanning twenty chapters, it covers figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.