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The crisis of reason : European thought, 1848-1914 / J.W. Burrow.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2000.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300214642
  • 9780300083903
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CB204 .C757 2000
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The stuff of the world and the promises of science -- The new generation -- The conservation of matter and energy ; materialist reductionism -- The enigma of consciousness and the impact of evolution -- The claims of science : science as vocation -- The reaction against materialism : phenomenalism, pragmatism and pan-psychism -- Social evolution and the sciences of culture -- A classified world -- Social evolution as the division of labour -- Sciences of religion and culture : France, Britain, Germany -- Social Darwinism, eugenics and race -- Community and modernity -- The market and modernity -- Community : the mar, the mir and the guild -- The ethical state -- Nation and state in Germany -- Nationalism and the critique of modernity : myth and charisma -- The elusive self -- The burden of freedom -- 'Character' -- The flux of experience -- The unconscious -- Constructing the self -- Work of art and microcosm -- 'Decadence' and 'life' -- The calling and the deed -- Immanence, revelation and transcendence -- Incarnation -- Myth and revelation -- The occult.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The stuff of the world and the promises of science -- The new generation -- The conservation of matter and energy ; materialist reductionism -- The enigma of consciousness and the impact of evolution -- The claims of science : science as vocation -- The reaction against materialism : phenomenalism, pragmatism and pan-psychism -- Social evolution and the sciences of culture -- A classified world -- Social evolution as the division of labour -- Sciences of religion and culture : France, Britain, Germany -- Social Darwinism, eugenics and race -- Community and modernity -- The market and modernity -- Community : the mar, the mir and the guild -- The ethical state -- Nation and state in Germany -- Nationalism and the critique of modernity : myth and charisma -- The elusive self -- The burden of freedom -- 'Character' -- The flux of experience -- The unconscious -- Constructing the self -- Work of art and microcosm -- 'Decadence' and 'life' -- The calling and the deed -- Immanence, revelation and transcendence -- Incarnation -- Myth and revelation -- The occult.

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