The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

Montgomery, Scott L.; Chirot, Daniel

ISBN 10: 0691173192 / ISBN 13: 9780691173191

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2016

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0691173192-4-33346703

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A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of 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. Yet these ideas also hold contradictions. They have been used in the service of brutal systems such as slavery and colonialism, been appropriated and twisted by monsters like Stalin and Hitler, and provoked reactions against the Enlightenments legacy by Islamic Salafists and the Christian Religious Right.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Scott L. Montgomery is an affiliate faculty member in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His books includeDoes Science Need a Global Language?: English and the Future of Research. Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington. His books includeWhy Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton). They both live in Seattle.

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Titel: The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair