The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914 Book

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Preface	x
	Acknowledgements	xvi
	Prologue: 1848-49: The Disillusionment of the Intellectuals	1
1	The Stuff of the World and the Promises of Science	31
1.1	The New Generation	31
1.2	The Conservation of Matter and Energy; Materialist Reductionism	34
1.3	The Enigma of Consciousness and the Impact of Evolution	42
1.4	The Claims of Science: Science as Vocation	52
1.5	The Reaction against Materialism: Phenomenalism, Pragmatism and Pan-psychism	56
2	Social Evolution and the Sciences of Culture	68
2.1	A Classified World	68
2.2	Social Evolution as the Division of Labour	72
2.3	Sciences of Religion and Culture: France, Britain, Germany	77
2.4	Social Darwinism, Eugenics and Race	92
3	Community and Modernity	109
3.1	The Market and Modernity	109
3.2	Community: The Mark, the Mir and the Guild	113
3.3	The Ethical State	124
3.4	Nation and State in Germany	132
3.5	Nationalism and the Critique of Modernity: Myth and Charisma	136
4	The Elusive Self	147
4.1	The Burden of Freedom	147
4.2	'Character'	152
4.3	The Flux of Experience	160
4.4	The Unconscious	164
5	Constructing the Self	170
5.1	Work of Art and Microcosm	170
5.2	'Decadence' and 'Life'	181
5.3	The Calling and the Deed	190
6	Immanence, Revelation and Transcendence	197
6.1	Incarnation	197
6.2	Myth and Revelation	208
6.3	The Occult	219
	Epilogue: Avant-garde	234
	Select Bibliography	254
	Index	264