The European mind, 1680-1715
By: by Paul Hazard
Series: Meridian books; Meridian books
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Ideeëngeschiedenis; History; History and criticism; Seventeenth century; Intellectual life; Philosophy; Modern Literature; Eighteenth century; Modern Philosophy; Modern philosophy
Work titles: Crise de la conscience européenne
Description: The period 1680-1715 was a great turning point in Western intellectual history. It marked the beginning of the general ferment which caused the overthrow of the classical mind and provided the initial stimulus for the establishment of the Romantic Enlightenment. With clarity as well as a sharp sense for the evaluation of detail and historical relevance, the author delineates this ferment and the process of erosion of respect for tradition, stability, proportion and settled usage which characterized Classicism.
Notes: On spine: Peter Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The Ferment Begins; title: The Old Order Changeth; title: The Light from the North; title: Heterodoxy; title: Pierre Bayle; title: The Rationalists; title: Miracles Denied: Comets, Oracles and Scorcerers; title: Richard Simon and Biblical Exegesis; title: Bossuet at Bay; title: An Attempt at Reunion and What Came of it; title: Locke's Empiricism; title: Deism and Natural Religion; title: Natural Law; title: Social Morality; title: Happiness on Earth; title: Science and Progress; title: Towards a New Pattern of Humanity; title: The Muses are Silent; title: Pictures, Strange or Beautiful; title: Laughter and Tears: Opera Triumphant; title: Influences, National, Popular and Instinctive; title: The Psychology of Uneasiness, the Aesthetics of Sentiment, the Metaphysics of Substance and the New Science; title: Souls of Fire.