'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
Introduction Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon; 1. German idealism: the thought of modernity Terry Pinkard; 2. European romanticism: ambivalent responses to the sense of a new epoch Nicholas Halmi; 3. History, tradition and skepticism: the patterns of nineteenth-century theology David Fergusson; 4. The young Hegelians: philosophy as critical praxis Warren Breckman; 5. Utilitarianism, God, and moral obligation from Locke to Sidgwick Philip Schofield; 6. Capital, class, and empire: nineteenth-century political economy and its imaginary Francesco Boldizzoni; 7. Positivism in European intellectual, political, and religious life Mary Pickering; 8. European liberalism in the nineteenth century Jerrold Seigel; 9. European socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s Gareth Stedman Jones; 10. Conservatism: the utility of history and the case against rationalist radicalism Jerry Muller; 11. The woman question: liberal and socialist critiques of the status of women Naomi Andrews; 12. Darwinism and social Darwinism Gregory Radick; 13. Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche John Toews; 14. Philology, language, and the constitution of meaning and human communities Tuska Benes; 15. Decadence and the 'second modernity' Mary Gluck; 16. Nihilism, pessimism, and the conditions of modernity Christian Emden; 17. Civilisation, culture and race: anthropology in the nineteenth century Adam Kuper; 18. The varieties of nationalist thought Erica Benner; 19. Ideas of empire: civilization, race, and global hierarchy Jennifer Pitts; 20. Rethinking revolution: radicalism at the end of the long nineteenth century Claudia Verhoeven.