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
a modern society in which the natural sciences and bureaucratic rationality had conspired to undermine confidence in religious values and traditional sources of meaning.
Warren Breckman • 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.
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
With the outbreak of the War in 1914 much of this late-bourgeois optimism in science and technology was shattered.
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
questions of ultimate significance demanded a species of personal decision exceeding the bounds of rational debate.
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
œThe fate of our times,†he declared, “is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’â€
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
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€
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
Benito Mussolini, who came to power as the leader of the Italian Fascist party in 1922.
Warren Breckman • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
The Decline of the West,