Description
| Product ID: | 9781032015804 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Europe: A Philosophical History, Part 1 |
| Subtitle: | The Promise of Modernity |
| Authors: | Author: Simon Glendinning |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Historiography, European history, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory, Historiography, European history, Western philosophy, from c 1900 -, Political science & theory, Europe |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the two volumes of Europe: A Philosophical History Simon Glendinning tells the story of Europe’s history as a philosophical history. Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. Could there be a distinctively philosophical history of Europe? Not a history of philosophy in Europe, but a history of Europe that focuses on what, in its history and identity, ties it to philosophy. In the two volumes of Europe: A Philosophical History - The Promise of Modernity and Beyond Modernity - Simon Glendinning takes up this question, telling the story of Europe’s history as a philosophical history. In Part 1, The Promise of Modernity, Glendinning examines the conception of Europe that links it to ideas of rational Enlightenment and modernity. Tracking this self-understanding as it unfolds in the writings of Kant, Hegel and Marx, Glendinning explores the transition in Europe from a conception of its modernity that was philosophical and religious to one which was philosophical and scientific. While this transition profoundly altered Europe’s own history, Glendinning shows how its self-confident core remained intact in this development. But not for long. This volume ends with an examination of the abrupt shattering of this confidence brought on by the first world-wide war of European origin – and the imminence of a second. The promise of modernity was in ruins. Nothing, for Europe, would ever be the same again.
Part 2: Beyond Modernity is available now from Routledge. ISBN 9781032015828 |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-15 |
