Remaking the world European distinctiveness and the transformation of politics, culture, and the economy
Introduction -- A preoccupation with liberty -- From liberties to liberty -- Liberties elsewhere -- Spheres of autonomy: The church, universities, and the bounds of reason -- Classical humanism and aesthetics -- Science as a sphere of autonomy -- Teleocratic sciences -- Other peoples, other places -...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, New York
Cambridge University Press
2025
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- A preoccupation with liberty -- From liberties to liberty -- Liberties elsewhere -- Spheres of autonomy: The church, universities, and the bounds of reason -- Classical humanism and aesthetics -- Science as a sphere of autonomy -- Teleocratic sciences -- Other peoples, other places -- Empire: material expansion, moral contraction, and internal criticism -- Courage and weakness: anti-imperialism and its limits in the nineteenth century -- Autonomy and transformation: Britain -- Transformation and autonomy: France and Germany -- Ready or not? China and India -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes "Examining Europe's singular role in world history, both for good and ill, Jerrold Seigel analyzes the special conditions that enabled it, contrasting them with the ways life was organized in Africa, India, the Islamic world, and China"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | pages cm |
| ISBN: | 9781009541664 9781009541688 |