European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

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. 

Richard A. Lofthouse, 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.

• Author
• Frank M. Turner, Richard A. Lofthouse

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• Yale University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780300207293

• Genres
• philosophy, history, sociology, politics

• Release date
• 2015