Mandelbaum History, Man, and Reason

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3179-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Originally published in 1971. The purpose of this book is to draw attention to important aspects of thought in the nineteenth century. While its central concerns lie within the philosophic tradition, materials drawn from the social sciences and elsewhere provide important illustrations of the intellectual movements that the author attempts to trace. This book aims at examining philosophic modes of thought as well as sifting presuppositions held in common by a diverse group of thinkers whose antecedents and whose intentions often had little in common. After a preliminary tracing of the main strands of continuity within philosophy itself, the author concentrates on how, out of diverse and disparate sources, certain common beliefs and attitudes regarding history, man, and reason came to pervade a great deal of nineteenth-century thought. Geographically, this book focuses on English, French, and German thought. Mandelbaum believes that views regarding history and man and reason pose problems for philosophy, and he offers critical discussions of some of those problems at the conclusions of parts 2, 3, and 4.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mandelbaum, Maurice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I. Philosophic Background
Chapter 1. Philosophic Movements in the Nineteenth Century
Part II. Historicism
Chapter 2. The Nature and Scope of Historicism
Chapter 3. The First Phase of Historicism: From the Enlightenment Through Hegel
Chapter 4. The Search for a Science of Socity: From Saint-Simon to Marx and Engels
Chapter 5. Evolution and Progress
Chapter 6. Social Evolution
Chapter 7. Historicism: A Critical Appraisal
Part III. The Malleability of Man
Chapter 8. Challenges to Constancy
Chapter 9. Geneticim: The Associationist Tradition
Chapter 10. Organicism: Culture and Human Nature
Chapter 11. Man as a Progressive Being
Chapter 12. Constancy and Changer in Human Nature: A Critical Account
Part IV. The Limits of Reason
Chapter 13. Critiques of the Intellectual Powers of Man: The Idealist Strand
Chapter 14. Ignoramus, Ignorabimus: The Positivist Strand
Chapter 15. The Rebellion Against Reason
Chapter 16. The Limits Reappraised
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mandelbaum, Maurice
Maurice Mandelbaum was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Dartmouth College. His work focused on phenomenology, epistemology, and intellectual history.