Remaking the World - European Distinctiveness Transformation of Politics, Culture,

"Examining Europe's singular role in world history, both for good and ill, Jerrold Seigel analyzes the special conditions that enabled it, contrasting them with the ways life was organized in Africa, India, the Islamic world, and China"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Liberty and Liberties: 2. A preoccupation with liberty; 3. From liberties to liberty; 4. Liberties elsewhere; Part II. Autonomy and Teleocracy: 5. Spheres of autonomy: the church, universities, and the bounds of reason; 6. Classical humanism and aesthetics; 7. Science as a sphere of autonomy; 8. Teleocratic sciences; Part III. Openness and Domination: 9. Other peoples, other places; 10. Empire: material expansion, moral contraction, and internal criticism; 11. Courage and weakness: anti-imperialism and its limits in the nineteenth century; Part IV. Transformations: 12. Autonomy and transformation: Britain; 13. Transformation and autonomy: France and Germany; 14. Ready or not? China and India; 15. Conclusion.

About the author

Jerrold Seigel is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University. His work ranges from intellectual and cultural history to the evolution of society and politics. Previous publications include The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century (2005), and Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (2012), which won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Jerrold Seigel, Jerrold (New York University) Seigel, Seigel Jerrold
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009541664
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954166-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800