The Age of Questions

Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, European General
Cover of the book The Age of Questions by Professor Holly Case, Princeton University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Professor Holly Case ISBN: 9781400890217
Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication: July 10, 2018
Imprint: Princeton University Press Language: English
Author: Professor Holly Case
ISBN: 9781400890217
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication: July 10, 2018
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Language: English

A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century

In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time?

In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature.

Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, *The Age of Questions *illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century

In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time?

In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature.

Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, *The Age of Questions *illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.

More books from Princeton University Press

Cover of the book Spin Glasses and Complexity by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book A Different Kind of Animal by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Addiction by Design by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book The German Economy by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Politics and Strategy by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Being German, Becoming Muslim by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book In Our Name by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book The Unquiet Frontier by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Public Goods, Private Goods by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Weak Courts, Strong Rights by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book One Day in the Life of the English Language by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book The Princeton History of Modern Ireland by Professor Holly Case
Cover of the book Economic Interdependence and War by Professor Holly Case
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy