The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review

The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)

Paul Hazardâ€™s magisterial, widely influential, and belovedÂ intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developments
in the sciences, arts, philosophy, and philology came to undermine the stable foundations of the classical world, with its commitment to tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage. Hazard shows how travelersâ€™ tales and archaeological investigation widened European awareness and acceptance of cultural difference; how the radical rationalism of Spinoza and Richard Simonâ€™s new historical exegesis of the Bible called into question the revealed truths of religion; how the Huguenot Pierre Bayleâ€™s critical dictionary of ideas paved the way for Voltaire and the Enlightenment, even as the empiricism of Locke encouraged a new attention to sensory experience that led to Rousseau and romanticism. Hazardâ€™s range of knowledge is vast, and whether the subject is operas, excavations, or scientific experiments his brilliant style and powers of description bring to life the thinkers who thought up the modern world.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590176191
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2013-04-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590176191

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590176191
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2013-04-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590176191

The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)

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