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- catalog abstract ""At the End of an Age is a reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge." "In this work, John Lukacs describes how we in the Western world have now been living through the ending of an entire historical age that began in Western Europe about five hundred years ago. Unlike people during the ending of the Middle Ages or the Roman empire, we can know where we are. But how and what is it that we know?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12461989.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""At the End of an Age is a reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge." "In this work, John Lukacs describes how we in the Western world have now been living through the ending of an entire historical age that began in Western Europe about five hundred years ago. Unlike people during the ending of the Middle Ages or the Roman empire, we can know where we are. But how and what is it that we know?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. At the end of an age -- Convictions: A personal envoi -- The evolution of "modern" -- Main features of the Modern Age -- Contradictory dualities -- "Post-modern" -- The need to rethink the current idea of "progress" -- 2. The presence of historical thinking -- My vocation -- The historicity of our thinking -- Professional history -- Justice/truth -- The appetite for history -- History and the novel -- History at the end of a historical age".
- catalog description "3. The question of scientific knowledge -- Evolution of my doubts -- The history of science -- Cosmological absurdities -- The collapse of determinism -- Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein -- The ending of materialism -- 4. An illustration -- The limits of knowledge -- The limits of objectivity -- The limits of definitions -- The limits of mathematics -- The inevitability of relationships -- Inevitable unpredictability -- Insufficient materialism -- The limits of idealism -- 5. At the center of the universe -- Timeliness, and limitations of my argument -- Heisenberg and Duhem -- At the center of the universe -- Conditions of belief -- A necessity for Christians.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300092962 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "121 21".
- catalog subject "CB430 .L85 2002".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 1950- Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Dualism.".
- catalog subject "Monism.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism.".
- catalog subject "Science and civilization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. At the end of an age -- Convictions: A personal envoi -- The evolution of "modern" -- Main features of the Modern Age -- Contradictory dualities -- "Post-modern" -- The need to rethink the current idea of "progress" -- 2. The presence of historical thinking -- My vocation -- The historicity of our thinking -- Professional history -- Justice/truth -- The appetite for history -- History and the novel -- History at the end of a historical age".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. The question of scientific knowledge -- Evolution of my doubts -- The history of science -- Cosmological absurdities -- The collapse of determinism -- Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein -- The ending of materialism -- 4. An illustration -- The limits of knowledge -- The limits of objectivity -- The limits of definitions -- The limits of mathematics -- The inevitability of relationships -- Inevitable unpredictability -- Insufficient materialism -- The limits of idealism -- 5. At the center of the universe -- Timeliness, and limitations of my argument -- Heisenberg and Duhem -- At the center of the universe -- Conditions of belief -- A necessity for Christians.".
- catalog title "At the end of an age / John Lukacs.".
- catalog type "text".