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 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. 
 
Richard 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.
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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 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. 
 
Richard 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.
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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

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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. 
 
Richard 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300212914
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 02/12/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Frank M. Turner (1944–2010) was John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Director of the Beinecke Library, and University Librarian, all at Yale University. Richard A. Lofthouse is editor of Oxford Today and formerly lecturer in modern history, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface ix

1 Rousseau's Challenge to Modernity 1

2 Tocqueville and Liberty 21

3 J.S. Mill and the Nineteenth Century 35

4 The Turn to Subjectivity 52

5 Medievalism and the Invention of the Renaissance 67

6 Nature Historicised 84

7 Darwin and Creation 102

8 Marx and the Transcendent Working Class 121

9 The Cult of the Artist 136

10 Nationalism 155

11 Race and Anti-Semitism 175

12 Wagner 193

13 The Ideology of Separate Gender Spheres 208

14 Old Faiths and New 226

15 Nietzsche 243

Notes 266

Glossary of Names 273

Suggested Reading 280

List of Illustrations 286

Index 288

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