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title: "The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)"
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# The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (New York Review Books Classics)

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    Superb!
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2023*

Jonathan Israel, probably our current leading expert on the history of the Enlightenment, praises this book, so I bought it and read it through in a weekend.  It's as good as Israel says it is: a panoramic view of the Enlightenment's major minds, written with verve, Enlightenment-like irony, and thorough command of its material.  It begins in 1680 but has plenty to say about Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A perennial masterpiece
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2017*

Though published more than eighty years ago, this essay is still a best-seller, still relevant and still fascinating.Paul Hazard describes himself as “a historian of mentalities”. To him, the last 20 years of the 17th century and the first 20 years of the 18th century are crucial in shaping the way we think, view the world, and gauge religions. That period in History is like the adolescence of the modern world.Like all crucial periods of our past, it wasn’t born, armed to the teeth, from the thigh of Jupiter. Paul Hazard gives precursors their dues : Rabelais, Montaigne and Bacon, to name but three. There are others.Talking about adolescence, if you mention The Crisis around you, you’ll find that those who are enthusiastic about it, have generally read it (several times) during their high school and university years. It has provided them with an excellent lie detector, and that’s priceless. Never mind the date of publication : like diamonds, this book is forever.

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    Scholarly and fascinating
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2013*

A book on the evolution of western thought is either a lesson from a pedant or an interesting journey and this is one all interesting.  Well written, not in the least pedantic, and interesting.  I study history, with a particular interest in  social change-- what sparks it, and is the direction predictable? (I am not sure they are to this reader, but I am hoping someone smarter than I am will find a pattern).  One spark is war and another is the choices of individuals (leaders as a rule) for good or ill.  Leaders are influenced by the ideas abroad in the land.  What starts as radical revision becomes the standard text and approach, waiting for the next wave of insight. Hazard's book traces in some detail the shift from a basis in religiously inspired thought towards the rational.  I recently read elsewhere the the modern society is moving away from rational / logical thought as its standard (an idea I don't wholly embrace), but it is an interesting idea.  The Hazard treatise may give us an idea of how that might happen.

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