The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review

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The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)

Paul Hazardâ€™s magisterial, widely influential, and belovedÂ 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 which new developments
in the sciences, arts, philosophy, and philology came to undermine the stable foundations of the classical world, with its commitment to tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage. Hazard shows how travelersâ€™ tales and archaeological investigation widened European awareness and acceptance of cultural difference; how the radical rationalism of Spinoza and Richard Simonâ€™s new historical exegesis of the Bible called into question the revealed truths of religion; how the Huguenot Pierre Bayleâ€™s critical dictionary of ideas paved the way for Voltaire and the Enlightenment, even as the empiricism of Locke encouraged a new attention to sensory experience that led to Rousseau and romanticism. Hazardâ€™s range of knowledge is vast, and whether the subject is operas, excavations, or scientific experiments his brilliant style and powers of description bring to life the thinkers who thought up the modern world.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Hazard
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781590176399
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
NumberOfPages	481
PublicationDate	2013-04-09
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2013-04-09
Studio	NYRB Classics

The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)

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