Book: European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Frank M. Turner (1944-2010), the John Hay Whitney Professor of History; edited by Richard A. Lofthouse

(Yale University Press)

Considered 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 distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the 20th century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures. 
 

Richard A. Lofthouse ’00 Ph.D., one of Turner’s former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of the renowned historian on the forging of modern European ideas.

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