The Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This first volume of The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought surveys late-eighteenthand nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life. Spanning twenty chapters, it covers figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism, and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence. Renouncing a single “master narrative” of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon establish a formidable new multifaceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.