The crisis of the European mind, 1680-1715
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The crisis of the European mind, 1680-1715
(New York review books classics)
New York Review Books, c2013
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La crise de la conscience européenne
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Original English translation published as: The European mind. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1953"--T.p.verso
Contents of Works
- Changing psychologies
- The ferment begins
- The old order changeth
- The light from the north
- Heterodoxy
- Pierre Bayle
- The war on tradition
- The rationalists
- Miracles denied: comets, oracles, and sorcerers
- Richard Simon and biblical exegesis
- Bossuet at bay
- An attempt at reunion and what came of it
- The task of reconstruction
- Locke's empiricism
- Deism and natural religion
- Natural law
- Social morality
- Happiness on earth
- Science and progress
- Towards a new pattern of humanity
- The feelings and the imagination
- The muses are silent
- Pictures, strange or beautiful
- Laughter and tears: opera triumphant
- Influences: national, popular, and instinctive
- The psychology of uneasiness, the aesthetics of sentiment, the metaphysics of substance, and the new science
- Souls of fire