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A CENTURY'S RETROSPECTIVE

The H-Ideas Year 2000 Book Review Project

By Author: a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | v | w | x | y | z |

A


M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature
(1971)

Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (1946)



B


Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

Keith Michael Baker, Condorcet (1975)

Hans Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in the Age of Classicism and Tyranny (1955)

Jacques Barzun, Darwin, Marx, and Freud: Critique of a Heritage (1941)

Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932)

Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx (1939)

Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers (1978)

James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980)

Marc Bloch, Les rois thaumaturges: etude sur le caractere surnaturel a la puissance royale (1923)

George Boas, Essays on Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages (1948)

J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progess (1920)



C


Sir James Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932)

Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (1975)

J. J. Clarke, Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought (1997)

Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium: Revolutionary Messianism in Medieval and Reformation Europe and its Bearing on Modern Totalitarian Movements (1957)

Stefan Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 (1991)

Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought (1943)

Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948)



D


Lorraine Daston, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (1988)

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1968)

Georges Duby, Les trois ordres: ou, l'imaginaire du feodalisme (1978)

Raymond Williams, Keywords (1979)



E


George Economou, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature (1972)

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979)

Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process (1939)



F


Lucien Febvre, Le Probleme de l'incroyance au XVIe siecle: la religion de Rabelais (1942)

Michel Foucault, L'Archeologie du savoir (1969)

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences (1966)

George Frazier, The Golden Bough (1922)

Egon Friedell, Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit. 2 vols. (1927/1928)

Julien Freund, La decadence: histoire sociologique et philsophique d'une categorie de l'experience humaine (1984)



G


Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. 2 vols. (1966, 1969)

G. P. Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (1913)

Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore (1967)

Anthony Grafton, Joseph Scaliger (1983)

A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China (1989)



H


Elie Halevy, The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism. 3 vols. (1901-1904)

A. Rupert Hall, The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800: The Formation of Modern Scientific Attitude (1954)

Donna Jeanne Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989)

Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1908)

Paul Hazard, La Crise de la Conscience Europeenne, 1680-1715 (1935)

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty in the Nineteenth Century: England in the Early Industrial Age (1983)

Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind (1957)

Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (1962)

H. Stuart Hughes, Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, 1890-1930 (1958)

Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924)



J


Werner Jaeger, Paedeia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (1933)

Lionel M. Jensen, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (1997)

Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World (1964)

Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (1988)

Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black (1968)



K


Bernhard Karlgren, Grammata Serica Recensa (1957)

Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies (1957)

Nikki Keddie, Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'al-Afghani': A Political Biography (1972)

James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory (1986)

Reinhard Koselleck, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (1956)

Alexandre Koyre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957)

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum (1963-1997)

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (1957)



L


Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, and Language (1983)

T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of American Culture (1981)

Theodor Lessing, Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen, oder Die Geburt der Geschichte aus dem Mythos (1921)

Joseph Levenson, Confucian China and its Modern Fate. 3 vols. (1958-1965)

Harry Levin, The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance (1969)

Charles Henry Lohr, Latin Aristotle Commentaries.-II: Renaissance Authors (1988)

Arthur O. Lovejoy, Essays in the History of Ideas (1948)

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)

Karl Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (1941)



M


Martin Malia, Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism (1961)

Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (1929)

Maruyama Masao, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics (1963)

Henry May, The Enlightenment in America (1976)

Friedrich Meinecke, Die entstehung des historismus (1936)

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980)

Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender and Science in New England (1989)

Perry Miller, The New England Mind. 2 vols. (1939)

Qian Mu, Zhongguo jin sanbai nian xueshushi. 2 vols. (1937)

Wilhelm E. Muehlmann, ed., Chiliasmus und Nativismus: Studien zur Psychologie, Soziologie und historischen Kasuistik der Umsturzbewegungen (1961)



N


Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (1967)

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (1954)

Marjorie Hope Nicholson, The Breaking of the Circle (1950)

F. S. C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry into Human Understanding (1946)

Peter Novick, That Noble Dream (1988)



O


Heiko Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (1963)

Max Oelschlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (1991)

Walter J. Ong, S.J., Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue (1958)



P


Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939)

Vernon Parrington, Main Currents of American Thought. 3 vols. (1927)

H. R. Patch, The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature (1927)

Roy Harvey Pearce, The Savages of America (1953)

J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975)

Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (1964)

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)

Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony (1933)



Q


Ricardo Quinones, The Renaissance Discovery of Time (1972)



R


John Herman Randall, Jr., The Making of the Modern Mind (1926)

John Herman Randall, Jr., The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science (1961)

Caroline Robbins, The Eighteen Century Commonwealth Men (1968)

Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)

Dorothy Ross, The Origin of American Social Science (1991)



S


Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)

Steve Shapin and Simon Shaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (1985)

Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996)

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950)

Leslie Stephen, The English Utilitarians. 3 vols. (1900)



T


Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989)

Henry Osborn Taylor, The Mediaeval Mind. 2 vols. (1951)

Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (1983)

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)

Ernst Topitsch, Gottwerdung und Revolution: Beitrage zur Weltanschauungsanalyse und Ideologiekritik (1973)



V


Galvano Della Volpe, Critica del Gusto (1963)



W


Tetsuro Watsuji, History of Ethical Thought in Japan. 2 vols. (1952)

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-05)

Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975)

Robert B. Westbrook, John Dewey (1991)

Hayden White, Metahistory (1973)

Morton White, Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism (1949)

Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background (1934)

Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station (1940)

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977)



Y


Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964)



Z


Li Zehou, Zhongguo jindai sixiangshi lun (1979)