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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Clash of Traditions -- The Foundations of a Different Modernity -- The Revolt against Reason and Natural Rights -- The Political Culture of Prejudice -- The Law of Inequality and the War on Democracy -- The Intellectual Foundations of Nationalism -- The Crisis of Civilization, Relativism, and the Death of Universal Values at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Anti-Enlightenment of the Cold War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 Epistemic Practices of a Revolutionary:Bruno's Methods and Thinking -- Giordano Bruno's Changing of Default Positions -- The Measurement of the Immeasurable. Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno's De triplici minimo et mensura -- "…per speculum et in aenigmate…" -- Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds -- PART 2 Experience and Vision of a New Cosmic Order: Giordano Bruno's Natural Philosophy -- De immenso et innumerabilibus, I, 3 and the Concept of Planetary Systems in the Infinite Universe. A Commentary -- Atom, Matter, and Monade -- Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time -- Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei -- PART 3 Forms of Non-Conformity: Bruno's Works as Literary Texts -- The Comic and Philosophy: Plato's Philebus and Bruno's Candle-bearer -- The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio -- Bruno's Cabala: Satire of Knowledge and the Uses of the Dialogue Form -- PART 4 Reflections of an Intellectual Burning: Bruno's Reception and Literary Afterlife -- The Dialectic of the Absolute Beginning. On a Copper Engraving in Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae -- A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation Rome: Athanasius Kircher, SJ and Panspermia Rerum -- From Paris to Rome, Hamburg and London. Aspects of the Afterlife of Giordano Bruno in the Twentieth Century -- PART 5 Visibility of the Invisible: About the Sculpture Giordano Bruno by Alexander Polzin [2008] -- Flame and Wood. A Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin / Color plates of the statue follow page 256 -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum -- Back cover.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction -- 1 Savants, Savages, and New Sensibilities -- 2 Savages and Spaniards: Natives Transformed -- 3 The Science of Creating Men -- 4 A Good War or a Bad Peace? -- 5 Trading, Gifting, and Treating -- 6 Crossing Borders -- Epilogue: Insurgents and Savages, from Inclusion to Exclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part 1. The Concept of a Demographic Avant-Garde: Three Keys -- Chapter 1. Population Change, Demographic Transition and Its Forerunners -- Chapter 2. Historical Context: The Case of Jews in Bohemia -- Chapter 3. Data Sources: Correct Use and Interpretation -- Part 2. Jewish Population Development in Bohemia: Trends and Transitions from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. Population Growth and Spatial Distribution -- Chapter 5. Population Structure: Sex, Age, and Marital Status -- Chapter 6. Marital Patterns: Nuptiality and Divorce -- Chapter 7. Fertility -- Chapter 8. Mortality and Causes of Death -- Chapter 9. Natural Population Increase, Migration, Religious Disaffiliation, and Acculturation -- Part 3. Social and Economic Characteristics of Jews in Bohemia -- Chapter 10. Linguistic Identity and Ethnicity -- Chapter 11. Education System and Enrolment -- Chapter 12. Social Status, Professional Structure, and Economic Contributions -- Conclusion -- List of References and Data Sources -- Appendices -- Index of Names and Concepts -- Back cover.

Also issued as inaugural disseratation, Munich, 1913. ; "Quellen und literatur": p. [ix]-xiv. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Enlightenment Politics -- Chapter 2: Classical Utilitarianism -- Chapter 3: Synthesizing Rights and Utility -- Chapter 4: Marxism -- Chapter 5: The Social Contract -- Chapter 6: Anti-Enlightenment Politics -- Chapter 7: Democracy -- Chapter 8: Democracy in the Mature Enlightenment -- Notes -- Index

This classic study of Europe in the 1920s resonates today. It examines how intellectuals abandoned their attachment to the traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals. It also describes the attack on the Enlightenment ideal of universal humanity and the concomitant glorification of various ideologies, as intellectuals betrayed their unique role in society. The implications for intellectual life today are transparent, and this long unavailable classic of European thought should interest all those who teach and who preach human sciences

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Moderns and Plato -- 2 Liberty and the Just Moral Conscience -- 3 The Cultivation of the Individual and Society: J. S. Mill's Use of Ancient and Romantic Dialectics -- 4 On Liberty: Overcoming the West's One-Sided Moral Development -- 5 Reforming Reformed Religion: J. S. Mill's Critique of the Natural Religion of the Enlightenment -- 6 On Liberty: The Summum Bonum of Modern Liberalism -- 7 Mill and Political Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Editors: 1916-Sept. 1921, G. F. Weeks; Nov. 1921- S. G. Vazquez. ; Vol. 3-4, no. 1 published in Mexico City; vol. 5, no. 3-6, in Los Angeles. ; Vol. 1-2, no. 4 has cover-subtitle: A journal devoted to the enlightenment of the American people in respect to the hopes, ambitions, beneficent intentions and accomplishments of the constitutionalist government of the republic of Mexico. Vol. 3-5 subtitle reads: Revista mexicana. ; Mode of access: Internet.