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European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992: Burdens of Knowing book cover

1st Edition

European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992 Burdens of Knowing

By Michael J. Sauter Copyright 2021
498 Pages
by Routledge

498 Pages
by Routledge

498 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two principal ways: culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. The book reads the period against spatial thought’s history (spatial sciences such as geography or Euclidean geometry) to argue that Europe... Read more

Introduction: Nosce Te Ipsum

1. Imagining Europe

2. Ancient Thought and the Medieval Synthesis I

3. Ancient Thought and the Medieval Synthesis II

4. Borrowed Syntheses—Medieval Muslim and Jewish Thought

5. Post-Medieval Syntheses

6. The Spatial Reformation

7. Humanism and the Southern Renaissance

8. Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

9. The Protestant Revolution

10. Tolerance and the Culture of Doubt

11. Law, God, and Magic

12. A New Certainty

13. The Scientific Revolution I

14. The Scientific Revolution II

15. Jesuits, Jansenists, and other Heretics

16. Science as Religion

17. From Nature to State

18. Platos Many and Varied

19. A World of Numbers

20. The Invention of History

21. The Power of Reason

22. Progressive Intolerance

23. The Production of Isms

24. The Industrial Revolution and its Discontents

25. Space and Race

26. From Urbanization to Urbanity

27. Novels, Writers, and Readers

28. Sex, Gender, and the Critical Mind

29. Prophecy from the Margins

30. Situating the Social

31. The New Social Science

32. The First World War and European Culture

33. The Science of Rootlessness

34. The Vacuum of Knowledge and its Isms

35. From the Ashes

Conclusion: Good-Bye to All That

Biography

Michael J. Sauter is a professor of history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of Visions of the Enlightenment: the Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia (2009) and The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos and God (2018).

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