The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved 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...
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Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved 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 whi
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B008LNWNHQ
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 481
Edition language: English
This book looks at the ground work that was necessary for Western Europeans, principally British, French and Germans to shake the neo-classical thought and make the West ready for the Enlightenment. To me, there is just something magical about reading a book from the 1930s which explains the beginn...
9 years ago
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