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The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914
The Crisis of Reason European Thought 18481914 Author:J. W. Burrow, J.W. Burrow This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the first World War. Distinguished historian J.W. Burrow populates his book with the great thinkers of the age -- among them Mill, Bakunin, Nietzsche, Proust, Flaubert, Wagner and Wilde -- and explores the impact on European intel... more »lectual life of such powerful scientific and social concepts as social Darwinism and the unconscious mind.« less