The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Hardback Set

Offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Warren Breckman (Edited by), Peter E. Gordon (Edited by)

9781108677462, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 29 August 2019

1200 pages
25.4 x 19.3 x 10.2 cm, 2.24 kg

'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth century to the present. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, this two-volume history is rich with original interpretive insight, and is written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Breckman and Gordon establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.

Volume I: Introduction Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon
1. German idealism: the thought of modernity Terry Pinkard
2. European romanticism: ambivalent responses to the sense of a new epoch Nicholas Halmi
3. History, tradition and skepticism: the patterns of nineteenth-century theology David Fergusson
4. The young Hegelians: philosophy as critical praxis Warren Breckman
5. Utilitarianism, God, and moral obligation from Locke to Sidgwick Philip Schofield
6. Capital, class, and empire: nineteenth-century political economy and its imaginary Francesco Boldizzoni
7. Positivism in European intellectual, political, and religious life Mary Pickering
8. European liberalism in the nineteenth century Jerrold Seigel
9. European socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s Gareth Stedman Jones
10. Conservatism: the utility of history and the case against rationalist radicalism Jerry Muller
11. The woman question: liberal and socialist critiques of the status of women Naomi Andrews
12. Darwinism and social Darwinism Gregory Radick
13. Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche John Toews
14. Philology, language, and the constitution of meaning and human communities Tuska Benes
15. Decadence and the 'second modernity' Mary Gluck
16. Nihilism, pessimism, and the conditions of modernity Christian Emden
17. Civilisation, culture and race: anthropology in the nineteenth century Adam Kuper
18. The varieties of nationalist thought Erica Benner
19. Ideas of empire: civilization, race, and global hierarchy Jennifer Pitts
20. Rethinking revolution: radicalism at the end of the long nineteenth century Claudia Verhoeven. Volume II: 1. Sociology and the heroism of modern life Martin Jay
2. Psychoanalysis: Freud and beyond Katja Guenther
3. Modern physics: from crisis to crisis Jimena Canales
4. Varieties of phenomenology Dan Zahavi
5. Existentialism and the meanings of transcendence Edward Baring
6. Philosophies of life Giuseppe Bianco
7. The many faces of analytical philosophy Joel Isaac
8. American ideas in the European imagination James T. Kloppenberg and Sam Klug
9. Revolution from the right: against equality Udi Greenberg
10. Western Marxism: revolutions in theory Max Pensky
11. Anti-imperialism and interregnum Kris Manjapra
12. Late modern feminist subversions: sex, subjectivity, and embodiment Sandrine Sanos
13. Modernist theologies: the many paths between God and world Peter E. Gordon
14. Modern economic thought and the 'good society' Hagen Schulz-Forberg
15. Conservatism and its discontents Steven B. Smith
16. Modernity and the specter of totalitarianism Samuel Moyn
17. Decolonization terminable and interminable Judith Surkis
18. Structuralism and the return of the symbolic Camille Robcis
19. Poststructuralism: from deconstruction to the genealogy of power Julian Bourg and Ethan Kleinberg
20. Contesting the public sphere: within and against critical theory David Ingram
21. Restructuring democracy and the idea of Europe Seyla Benhabib and Stefan Eich.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], History of Western philosophy [HPC], European history [HBJD]