History and Human Nature: Philosophical Review of European Philosophy and Culture, 1750-1850: A Philosophical Review of European Philosophy and Culture, 1750-1850 - Softcover

Solomon, Robert C.

9780819139795: History and Human Nature: Philosophical Review of European Philosophy and Culture, 1750-1850: A Philosophical Review of European Philosophy and Culture, 1750-1850

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819139793 ISBN 13: 9780819139795

Publisher: University Press of America, 1984

Originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1979, this volume offers a cross-disciplinary portrait of a fascinating period in modern European history and culture, 1750o1850. It presents a philosophically contentious thesis about the nature of history and "human nature".

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Review:

A fresh maverick rereading of European history and culture...An exhilarating intellectual adventure, written with a light touch, sweeping in its broad grasp of broad cultural crosscurrents, provocative in its diagnosis of the legacy of bourgeois freedom.--Publishers Weekly

A vigorously argued and stimulating book.--Times Higher Education, (London)

About the Author:

Robert C. Solomon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

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