Title:
The shape of the new : four big ideas and how they made the modern world / Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot.
Author:
Montgomery, Scott L., author.
Chirot, Daniel, author.
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Call Number:
CB358 .M66 2015
Abstract:
Examines "Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics"--Amazon.com.
ISBN:
9780691150642
Physical Description:
x, 492 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Adam Smith: the science of man, morality, and money -- Karl Marx: the tragic consequences of a brilliant theory -- Charles Darwin: struggle and selection in the realm of ideas -- Making democracy: the Jefferson-Hamilton debates -- Counter-enlightenment: from anti-modernism to fascism -- Christian fundamentalism: the politics of God in America -- Purifying Islam: the Muslim reaction against the Western enlightenment -- Conclusion: the power of ideas and the importance of the humanities.
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