Michael J. Sauter

European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992 (eBook, ePUB)

Burdens of Knowing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two main ways; culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000395495
• Artikelnr.: 61470482

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Sauter is a professor of history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of Visions of the Enlightenment: the Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia (2009) and The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos and God (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Nosce Te Ipsum 1. Imagining Europe 2. Ancient thought and the
medieval synthesis I 3. Ancient thought and the medieval Synthesis II 4.
Borrowed syntheses-medieval Muslim and Jewish thought 5. Post-medieval
syntheses 6. The spatial reformation 7. Humanism and the Southern
Renaissance 8. Humanism and the Northern Renaissance 9. The Protestant
revolution 10. Tolerance and the culture of doubt 11. Law, God, and magic
12. A new certainty 13. The Scientific Revolution I 14. The Scientific
Revolution II 15. Jesuits, Jansenists, and other heretics 16. Science as
religion 17. From nature to state 18. Platos many and varied 19. A world of
numbers 20. The invention of history 21. The power of reason 22.
Progressive intolerance 23. The production of isms 24. The Industrial
Revolution and its discontents 25. Space and race 26. From urbanization to
urbanity 27. Novels, writers, and readers 28. Sex, gender, and the critical
mind 29. Prophecy from the margins 30. Situating the social 31. The new
social science 32. The First World War and European culture 33. The science
of rootlessness 34. The vacuum of knowledge 35. From the ashes Conclusion:
good-bye to all that