History of Modern Western Thought: from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
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This intellectual history textbook has been popular in European and American universities for half a century. It is the masterpiece of Roland Stromberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin. It has been reprinted many times since the Chinese version came out. It vividly and concisely outlines the panorama of modern Western thought with a high-level historical perspective, exciting and high-spirited text expressions, and sharp and thorough philosophical analysis. In this volume, the author follows the historical context and genealogy of ideological development and reviews the modern Western ideological trends from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment: The Middle Ages was the age of witchcraft and magic, and the birth of modern science and philosophy. In its later period, the most important ideological renaissance in European history occurred, which laid the foundation and created conditions for all subsequent developments. The 17th century was a "century of genius." From Kepler and Galileo to Descartes and Newton, the Western world entered science and rationality, and the material world and the spiritual world separated. The scientific revolution shaped the century and spilled over into the political sphere, as thought turned toward the Enlightenment. The 18th century was the century of enlightenment. People shifted the focus of understanding the world from nature to the human world. The Enlightenment set off a trend of ideological emancipation. Romanticism and skepticism went hand in hand. The ideas and concepts of freedom, democracy, and equality exerted a lasting influence. The following French Revolution ushered in the practical climax of Enlightenment thought... Liu Beicheng, a professor of history at Tsinghua University, and Zhao Guoxin, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, worked together to create a full translation of the classic, accurately reproducing the grand ideological picture of the original book.
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