"Examining Europe's singular role in world history, both for good and ill, Jerrold Seigel analyzes the special conditions that enabled it, contrasting them with the ways life was organized in Africa, India, the Islamic world, and China"--
"Examining Europe's singular role in world history, both for good and ill, Jerrold Seigel analyzes the special conditions that enabled it, contrasting them with the ways life was organized in Africa, India, the Islamic world, and China"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jerrold Seigel is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University. His work ranges from intellectual and cultural history to the evolution of society and politics. Previous publications include The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century (2005), and Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (2012), which won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize.
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1. Introduction Part I. Liberty and Liberties: 2. A preoccupation with liberty 3. From liberties to liberty 4. Liberties elsewhere Part II. Autonomy and Teleocracy: 5. Spheres of autonomy: the church, universities, and the bounds of reason 6. Classical humanism and aesthetics 7. Science as a sphere of autonomy 8. Teleocratic sciences Part III. Openness and Domination: 9. Other peoples, other places 10. Empire: material expansion, moral contraction, and internal criticism 11. Courage and weakness: anti-imperialism and its limits in the nineteenth century Part IV. Transformations: 12. Autonomy and transformation: Britain 13. Transformation and autonomy: France and Germany 14. Ready or not? China and India 15. Conclusion.
1. Introduction Part I. Liberty and Liberties: 2. A preoccupation with liberty 3. From liberties to liberty 4. Liberties elsewhere Part II. Autonomy and Teleocracy: 5. Spheres of autonomy: the church, universities, and the bounds of reason 6. Classical humanism and aesthetics 7. Science as a sphere of autonomy 8. Teleocratic sciences Part III. Openness and Domination: 9. Other peoples, other places 10. Empire: material expansion, moral contraction, and internal criticism 11. Courage and weakness: anti-imperialism and its limits in the nineteenth century Part IV. Transformations: 12. Autonomy and transformation: Britain 13. Transformation and autonomy: France and Germany 14. Ready or not? China and India 15. Conclusion.
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