The shape of the new
Subtitle: four big ideas and how they made the modern world
By: Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot
Contributors: Chirot, Daniel, author
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780691150642
Subjects: Intellectual life; History; Modern Civilization; Modern Philosophy
Description: Examines "Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Indeas as historical forces; title: Inventors of Modernity and What Became of Their Ideas. Adam Smith: the science of man, morality, and money; title: Karl Marx: the tragic consequences of a brilliant theory; title: Charles Darwin: struggle and selection in the realm of ideas; title: Making democracy: the Jefferson-Hamilton debates.; title: Secular and Religious Reactions Against Enlightenment. Counter-enlightenment: from anti-modernism to fascism; title: Christian fundamentalism: the politics of God in America; title: Purifying Islam: the Muslim reaction against the Western enlightenment; title: The power of ideas and the importance of the humanities.