European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
Frank M Turner and Richard A. Lofthouse
Abstract
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures—lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon—distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. The author, one of Turner's former students, has now edited the lectures in ... More
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures—lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon—distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. The author, one of Turner's former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of modern European ideas. Moreover, it offers a fine example of how intellectual history should be taught: rooted firmly in historical and biographical evidence.
Keywords:
Frank Turner,
European intellectual history,
modern European history,
lectures
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300207293 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2015 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300207293.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Frank M Turner, author
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Richard A. Lofthouse, editor
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