European historical thought

Section: Political Books

Number of pages: 344 pages

European Historical Thought provides the reader with an intellectual summary of modern European historical writings that expressed the aspirations of European intellectuals and thinkers, and the tendencies of its groups and peoples from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and reflected the social movements, economic transformations, cultural interactions, and political developments experienced by European nations. The opinions put forward by these writings took the form of intellectual trends, ideological positions, and cognitive contributions that responded to the requirements of the modern era, its emerging conditions, and the reality of the changing European society. They were presented in the form of European historical schools that contained the trends of modern European thought; they were a mirror reflecting it, and attempted to study the fluctuations experienced by Western Europe through monitoring, recording, and interpretation, in addition to the extent of their influence on the intellectual mentality, visions, and prevailing perceptions promoted by intellectual circles and the ruling or influential elites, who laid the foundations of the social structure and political organization of the contemporary world.