The Sociology of Philosophies pdf free download. The twentieth century is the first in which comprehending world history has become possible. Previous generations of scholars knew too little about other parts of the world beyond their own. Cosmopolitan historical research, beginning in the German university revolution around 1800, reached a critical mass in the early years of our own century. Then appeared the first great efforts to break out of a Eurocentric viewpoint and to sketch the shapes on a world scale: Weber, Spengler, Toynbee, Kroeber.
The Sociology of Philosophies pdf free download
Their work is judged of mixed quality today, not surprisingly for pioneering efforts; that it appeared simultaneously indicates it was based on an underlying shift in the means of intellectual production. The literature of that generation, in T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Hermann Hesse, shares the quality of opening a treasure chest of world culture; The Waste Land could quote from ancient India as well as pre-classical Greece, and Pound’s Cantos extended the range of allusion from Renaissance Italian to medieval Chinese.
The Sociology of Philosophies pdf free download
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