|
Books > History > World history > From 1900
|
Buy Now
European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992 - Burdens of Knowing (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,222
Discovery Miles 12 220
|
|
|
European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992 - Burdens of Knowing (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book explores the main currents of European thought between
1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two principal ways: culture
as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from
previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. The book
reads the period against spatial thought's history (spatial
sciences such as geography or Euclidean geometry) to argue that
Europe cannot be understood as a continent in intellectual terms or
its history organized with respect to traditional
spatial-geographic categories. Instead we need to understand
European intellectual history in terms of a culture that defined
its own place, as opposed to a place that produced a given culture.
It then builds on this idea to argue that Europe's overweening
drive to know more about humanity and the cosmos continually
breached the boundaries set by venerable religious and
philosophical traditions. In this respect, spatial thought
foregrounded the human at the unchanging's expense, with European
thought slowly becoming unmoored, as it doggedly produced knowledge
at wisdom's expense. Michael J. Sauter illustrates this by pursuing
historical themes across different chapters, including European
thought's exit from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the
Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and
Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution, and war and culture,
offering a thorough overview of European thought during this
period. The book concludes by explaining how contemporary culture
has forgotten what early modern thinkers such as Michel de
Montaigne still knew, namely, that too little skepticism toward
one's own certainties makes one a danger to others. Offering a
comprehensive introduction to European thought that stretches from
the late fourteenth to the late twentieth century, this is the
perfect one-volume study for students of European intellectual
history.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
