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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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Description
xii, 312 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
Cambridge paperback library
Subject
  • Sociology
  • Sociology > Europe > History
  • Sociology > United States > History
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Sociology
  • sociology
  • Sociology > Philosophy > History
  • Social sciences > Philosophy > History
  • Sociologie
  • Sociologie > Europe > Histoire
  • Sociologie > Etats-Unis > Histoire
  • Philosophie moderne
  • Europe
  • United States
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