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The Decline of the West,
Warren Breckman • 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
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
awaiting the “Faustian†spirit of Western civilization.
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
if the empire could offer a sort of shambling material self-reliance, could it offer some sort of analytic and aesthetic self-reliance, too?