The crisis of reason : European thought, 1848-1914 / J.W. Burrow.
Burrow, J. W. (John Wyon), 1935-2009.
2000
CB204 .B87 2000 (Mapit)
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Title The crisis of reason : European thought, 1848-1914 / J.W. Burrow.
Author Burrow, J. W. (John Wyon), 1935-2009.
ISBN 0300083904 (alk. paper)
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
Language English
Description xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number CB204 .B87 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.2/8
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-263) and index.
Series The Yale intellectual history of the West
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1. The stuff of the world and the promises of science
The new generation
The conservation of matter and energy ; materialist reductionism
The enigma of consciousness and the impact of evolution
The claims of science : science as vocation
The reaction against materialism : phenomenalism, pragmatism and pan-psychism
2. Social evolution and the sciences of culture
A classified world
Social evolution as the division of labour
Sciences of religion and culture : France, Britain, Germany
Social Darwinism, eugenics and race
3. Community and modernity
The market and modernity
Community : the mar, the mir and the guild
The ethical state
Nation and state in Germany
Nationalism and the critique of modernity : myth and charisma
4. The elusive self
The burden of freedom
'Character'
The flux of experience
The unconscious
5. Constructing the self
Work of art and microcosm
'Decadence' and 'life'
The calling and the deed
6. Immanence, revelation and transcendence
Incarnation
Myth and revelation
The occult.

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