European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures — lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a not...

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1. Verfasser: Turner, Frank M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale Univ. Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures — lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon — distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. 0Richard A. Lofthouse, one of Turner’s former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of modern European ideas. Moreover, it offers a fine example of how intellectual history should be taught: rooted firmly in historical and biographical evidence
Beschreibung:XIII, 336 S.
ISBN:9780300207293
978-0-300-20729-3