The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

He feared that the higher ideals of the Enlightenment were “irretrievably lost†and that only the imperative of “economic compulsion†would prevail.
Edmund Husserl combated what he saw as the relativistic threats of both psychologism and historicism and extolled the ideal of philosophy as a “rigorous science.â€
a modern society in which the natural sciences and bureaucratic rationality had conspired to undermine confidence in religious values and traditional sources of meaning.
questions of ultimate significance demanded a species of personal decision exceeding the bounds of rational debate.
œThe fate of our times,†he declared, “is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’â€
Benito Mussolini, who came to power as the leader of the Italian Fascist party in 1922.
awaiting the “Faustian†spirit of Western civilization.
œil n’y a donc pas un temps des philosophes.â€