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"History of Modern Western Thought" Author: [US] Roland Stromberg Publisher: CITIC Press
"History of Modern Western Thought" Author: [US] Roland Stromberg Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This is a popular textbook on the history of thought in European and American universities for half a century. It is the masterpiece of Roland Stromberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin. The Chinese version has been reprinted many times since its publication. With its lofty historical perspective, passionate and uplifting textual expression, and sharp and thorough philosophical analysis, it vividly and concisely outlines the panorama of modern Western thought.
In this volume, the author follows the historical context and genealogy of the development of thought and reviews the modern Western thought from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment: The Middle Ages was an era of witchcraft and magic, and also an era when modern science and philosophy were born. In the late Middle Ages, there was an important ideological revival in European history, 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 were separated. The scientific revolution shaped this century and affected the political field, and thought turned to enlightenment. The 18th century was the century of enlightenment, when people shifted the focus of understanding the world from nature to the human world. The Enlightenment set off a trend of ideological liberation, with romanticism and skepticism running parallel, and the concepts of freedom, democracy, and equality exerting a lasting influence. The subsequent French Revolution ushered in the climax of the practice of Enlightenment thought...
Liu Beicheng, professor of the History Department of Tsinghua University, and Zhao Guoxin, professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University, have joined hands to create a complete translation of the classic, accurately reproducing the grand ideological picture of the original text.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Roland Stromberg (1916-2004) was an American historian.
He has taught at the University of Maryland, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has written books such as Religious Freedom in Sixteenth-Century England, History of Modern European Thought, History of European Thought Since 1789, After Everything Happened: A History of Thought Since 1945, Redemption of War: Intellectuals and 1914, and Men, Women, and History.
About the Translator:
Liu Beicheng is Professor Emeritus of the History Department of Tsinghua University.
Zhao Guoxin is a professor at the School of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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