Thought movement of the 19th century

Author: George H. Mead (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The Classics of Western Thought Series (Volume 2). This book explores the intellectual movement of the 19th century, dominated by a scientific spirit. Mead focuses on scientific methodology, laying out the intellectual background of science—primarily physics and philosophy—that had accumulated since the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. From this, hes a discussion on the philosophical movement pioneered by Kant. Under Mead's grand and sweeping prose, this vast intellectual process is presented as follows: starting with Kant's idea of structuring nature and society, it begins with the static structural forms of the world, passes through Fichte and Schelling, and culminates in Hegel's philosophical depiction of the dynamic processes of nature and society, thus paving the way for the widespread popularity of evolutionary thought.