Rousseau's challenge to modernity -- Tocqueville and liberty -- J.S. Mill and the nineteenth century -- The turn to subjectivity -- Medievalism and the invention of the Renaissance -- Nature historicised -- Darwin and creation -- Marx and the transcendent working class -- The cult of the artist -- Nationalism -- Race and anti-Semitism -- Wagner -- The ideology of separate gender spheres -- Old faiths and new -- Nietzsche
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Turner's lectures "distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures."--Jacket
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European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche.