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Enlightenment and despair : a history of social theory
- Title
- Enlightenment and despair : a history of social theory / Geoffrey Hawthorn.
- Author
- Hawthorn, Geoffrey.
- Publication
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | HM24 .H39 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 312 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Cambridge paperback library
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 276-303.
- Contents
- Enlightenment and doubt -- English empiricism and French rationalism -- The problem of man's place: Montesquieu and Rousseau -- Kant's solutions to man's place -- Herder's extension and Kant's objection -- Romanticism -- Reason in history: Hegel -- Hegel supposedly transformed -- Making a necessary history: Marx -- France after the revolution -- A positive solution: Saint-Simon and Comte -- England and utilitariansim -- A positive promise: J.S. Mill -- The evolution of altruism: Hobhouse -- France after 1871 -- Rationalising the republic: Durkheim.
- Germany after 1871 -- Materialsim and Geist -- Understanding the Reich: Max Weber -- Europe after 1918 -- The United States: liberalism in a vacuum -- Defending slavery and millionaires -- Europe after 1945 -- Germany: old dominations and critical theories -- The decomposition of American thought -- England: a less common sense.
- ISBN
- 0521331013
- 9780521331012
- 0521337216
- 9780521337212
- LCCN
- 86016703
- OCLC
- ocm13902763
- 13902763
- SCSB-8787828
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library