The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters it focuses on figures such as Freud Heidegger Adorno and Arendt surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology Existentialism and Conservatism and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism Structuralism and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single ''master narrative'' of European thought across the period Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.