Burrow, J. W. 1935-2009.

The crisis of reason : European thought, 1848-1914 / J.W. Burrow. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2000. - 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations - The Yale intellectual history of the West .

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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Philosophy, Modern--19th century.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern.


Electronic Books.

CB204 / .C757 2000