Hazard, Paul 1878-1944

The European mind 1680-1715 / By Paul Hazard. - Cleveland ; New York : The World Publishing Company, 1968. - XX, 454 p. ; 20 cm. - Meridian Books M 152 .

Index: p. 448-454

Contents: Part I. Changing Psychologies. Chapter I. The ferment begins; Chapter II. The old order changeth; Chapter III. The light from the north; Chapter IV. Heterodoxy; V. Pierre Bayle. Part II. The war on tradition. Chapter I. The rationalists; ChapterII. Miracles denied: Comets, oracles and sorcerers; Chapter III. Richard Simon and biblical exegesis; Chapter IV. Bossuet at bay; Chapter V. An attempt at reunion and what come of it. Part III. The task of reconstruction. Chapter I. Locke's empiricism; Chapter II. Deim and natural religion; Chapter III. Natural law; Chapter IV. Social morality; Chapter V. Happiness on earth; Chapter VI. Science and progress; Chapter VII. Towards a new pattern of humanity; Part IV. The feelings and the imagination. Chapter I. The muses are silent; Chapter II. Pictures, strange or beautiful; Chapter III. Laughter and tears: opera triumphant; Chapter IV. Influences, National, popular iand instinctive; Chapter V. The psychology of uneasiness, the aesthetics of sentiment, the metaphysics of substance and the new science; Chapter VI. Souls of fire.


Philosophy--History--18th century
Religious thought--18th century.