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This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical
profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and
Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic
Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures
include Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf,
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel
Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the
conflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all
three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and
Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book
reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and
forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text
appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including
Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while
also appealing to the interested lay reader.
This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical
profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and
Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic
Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures
include Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf,
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel
Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the
conflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all
three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and
Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book
reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and
forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text
appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including
Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while
also appealing to the interested lay reader.
A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is
filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs,
that richly evoke the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna,
St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an
invigorating look at the unfolding of an age. "This exceptionally
wide-ranging history is chock-a-block with anecdotes, factoids, odd
juxtapositions, and useful insights. Most impressive. . . . For
anyone interested in learning about late 19th- and early 20th-
century imaginative thought, this engagingly written book is a good
place to start."--Washington Post Book World "The First Moderns
brilliantly maps the beginning of a path at whose end loom as many
diasporas as there are men."--Frederic Morton, The Los Angeles
Times Book Review "In this truly exciting study of the origins of
modernist thought, poet and teacher Everdell roams freely across
disciplinary lines. . . . A brilliant book that will prove useful
to scholars and generalists for years to come; enthusiastically
recommended."--Library Journal, starred review "Everdell has
performed a rare service for his readers. Dispelling much of the
current nonsense about 'postmodernism, ' this book belongs on the
very short list of profound works of cultural analysis."--Booklist
"Innovative and impressive . . . [Everdell] has written a
marvelous, erudite, and readable study."-Mark Bevir, Spectator "A
richly eclectic history of the dawn of a new era in painting,
music, literature, mathematics, physics, genetics, neuroscience,
psychiatry and philosophy."--Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist
"[Everdell] has himself recombined the parts of our era's
intellectual history in new and startling ways, shedding light for
which the reader of The First Moderns will be eternally
grateful."--Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review "Everdell
shows how the idea of "modernity" arose before the First World War
by telling the stories of heroes such as T. S. Eliot, Max Planck,
and Georges Serault with such a lively eye for detail, irony, and
ambiance that you feel as if you're reliving those miraculous
years."--Jon Spayde, Utne Reader
Written in clear, lively prose, "The End of Kings" traces the
history of republican governments and the key figures that are
united by the simple republican maxim: "No man shall rule alone."
Breathtaking in its scope, Everdell's book moves from the Hebrew
Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus's Rome to the impeachment trial of
Andrew Johnson and the Watergate proceedings during which Nixon
resigned. Along the way, he carefully builds a definition of
"republic" which distinguishes democratic republics from
aristocratic ones for both history and political science. In a new
foreword, Everdell addresses the impeachment trial of President
Clinton and argues that impeachment was never meant to punish
private crimes. Ultimately, Everdell's brilliant analysis helps us
understand how examining the past can shed light on the present.
"[An] energetic, aphoristic, wide-ranging book."--Marcus Cunliffe,
"Washington Post Book World"
"Ambitious in conception and presented in a clear and sprightly
prose. . . . [This] excellent study . . . is the best statement of
the republican faith since Alphonse Aulard's essays almost a
century ago." --"Choice"
"A book which ought to be in the hand of every American who agrees
with Benjamin Franklin that the Founding Fathers gave us a Republic
and hoped that we would be able to keep it."-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
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