Consciousness and Society

by H. Stuart Hughes, Stanley Hoffman

Overview

Hughes' ideas, and the way they are expressed in Consciousness and Society, have become paradigms of twentieth-century scholarship. In dealing with the changing social thought after 1890 in Europe, Hughes covers a wide array of thinkers and issues in a scholarly, yet graceful manner. His is a study of the "cluster of genius" of Europe at that time: Croce, Durkheim, Freud, Weber, and Nietzsche, as well as other great European minds. The book explores questions that are still relevant in today's society: Is the separation of facts and values tenable, or even desirable? Can rationality accommodate the ideas of a Bergson or a Freud? Is there, or should there be, a relationship between science and religion? And does history have any ultimate meaning for later generations?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765809186
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	03/31/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. Stuart Hughes, Stanley Hoffman

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 1. Some Preliminary Observations, 2. The Decade of the 1890's: The Revolt against Positivism, 3. The Critique of Marxism, 4. The Recovery of the Unconscious, 5. Georges Sorel's Search for Reality, 6. Neo-Idealism in History, 7. The Heirs of Machiavelli: Pareto, Mosca, Michels, 8. Max Weber and the Transcending of Positivism and Idealism, 9. The European Imagination and the First World War, 10. The Decade of the 1920's: The Intellectuals at the Point of Cleavage, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, INDEX