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The crisis of the European mind, 1680-1715

Paul Hazard ; translated from the French by J. Lewis May ; introduction by Anthony Grafton

(New York review books classics)

New York Review Books, c2013

  • : paperback

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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

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