Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity

During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of inquiry as social history, the history of mentalitZs, linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and art history, intellectual and cultural history is experiencing a renewed vitality. The far-ranging essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of these new studies. The book is in five parts: The Enlightenment and Its Heritages; Mind and Culture in the Victorian Middle Classes; European Cultural Modernism; Culture, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany; and Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. Striking for its interdisciplinarity, the volume includes essays in political theory, historical philosophy, cultural criticism, theology, literature, medicine, and psychoanalysis. Among the topics are Thomas Hobbes s civil science, Enlightenment philosophies of history, ancien rZgime pornography, German modernist architecture, T. S. Eliot s social criticism, the history of cultural censorship in Germany, German-Jewish women during the Nazi persecution, and Freud s attitudes toward death and dying.

ISBN 0804731179   Pages 528 ISBN13 9780804731171 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Stanford University Press   Weight (grammes) 690 Imprint Stanford University Press   Published in Palo Alto Format Paperback   Series title Cultural Sitings Publication date 31 Mar 2002   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress D424.E55 2   Width (mm) 154 DEWEY 940.28   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Notes on Contributors
		Preface
1		Peter Gay: A Life in History by Robert L. Dietle and Mark S. Micale		1
Pt. I		The Enlightenment and Its Heritages
2		Thomas Hobbes's Changing Conception of Civil Science by Quentin Skinner		27
3		Wisdom at the Expense of the Dead: Thinking about History in the French Enlightenment by Harry C. Payne		44
4		A Provincial Doctor Faces the Paris Establishment: Philippe Pinel, 1778-1793 by Dora B. Weiner		66
5		"Philosophical Sex": Pornography in Old Regime France by Robert Darnton		88
Pt. II		Mind and Culture in the Victorian Middle Classes
6		Miracles in English Unitarian Thought by R. K. Webb		113
7		The Cardinal's Brother: Francis Newman, Victorian Bourgeois by W. F. Bynum		131
8		The Bourgeois Experience as Political Culture: The Chamberlains of Birmingham by David Cannadine		148
Pt. III		European Cultural Modernism
9		Building Historical and Cultural Identities in a Modernist Frame: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Bauakademie in Context by John E. Toews		167
10		The European Modernist as Anglican Moralist: The Later Social Criticism of T. S. Eliot by Stefan Collini		207
11		Celine and the Cultivation of Hatred by Jay Winter		230
12		Modern and Postmodern Paganism: Peter Gay and Jean-Francois Lyotard by Martin Jay		249
Pt. IV		Culture, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany
13		Paradoxes of Censorship in Modern Germany by Peter Jelavich		265
14		The Creation of Wilhelm Busch as a German Cultural Hero, 1902-1908 by Thomas A. Kohut		286
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