Books in the The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought series

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It covers figures such as Wollstonecraft and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, liberalism, feminism, and schools of thought such as historicism, philology and decadence.

Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including phenomenology, existentialism, conservatism and critical movements including decolonization, structuralism and post-structuralism.

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It covers figures such as Wollstonecraft and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, liberalism, feminism, and schools of thought such as historicism, philology and decadence.

This two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth century to the present. It explores not only individual figures, but also the political, social, institutional and disciplinary contexts within which they developed their ideas.