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The social/intellectual context in the writings of western [[European history]] includes:
The social/intellectual context in the writings of western [[European history]] includes:
;*[[The Enlightenment]]: [[Human rights]], new science, [[democracy]] (scholarly sources; [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]).
;*[[The Enlightenment]]: [[Human rights]], new science, [[democracy]] (scholarly sources; [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]).
;*[[Modernism]] : Rejects Christian academic scholarly tradition (scholarly sources [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Jacob Burckhardt]], [[Beard]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Carl Jung]]).
;*[[Modernism]] : Rejects Christian academic scholarly tradition (scholarly sources [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Jacob Burckhardt]], [[Beard]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Carl Jung]]).
;*[[Existentialism]]: Pre- and post-WW2 rejection of Western norms and cultural values. [[Martin Heidegger]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Hans Jonas]], [[Karl Löwith]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Claude Levi-Strauss]], [[Martin Buber]], [[Edmund Husserl]]. Engaged with the intellectual prominence of fascism and socialism in Europe during in the 1930s and 1940s, which they saw needed both repudiation and study, as a way to re-establish the individual against the values of a hostile and destructive series of communities creating alienation, isolation, and individual meaninglessness.
;*[[Existentialism]]: Pre- and post-WW2 rejection of Western norms and cultural values. [[Martin Heidegger]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Hans Jonas]], [[Karl Löwith]], [[Herbert Marcuse]], [[Claude Levi-Strauss]], [[Martin Buber]], [[Edmund Husserl]]. Engaged with the intellectual prominence of fascism and socialism in Europe during in the 1930s and 1940s, which they saw needed both repudiation and study, as a way to re-establish the individual against the values of a hostile and destructive series of communities creating alienation, isolation, and individual meaninglessness.
;*[[Poststructuralism]] :[[Deconstruction]], destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]], [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]], [[Michel Foucault|Foucault]]).
;*[[Poststructuralism]] :[[Deconstruction]], destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]], [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]], [[Michel Foucault|Foucault]]).
==Asia and the Far East==
==Asia and the Far East==
==Prominent Individuals==
==Prominent Individuals==
*[[Perry Anderson]]
*[[Perry Anderson]]
*[[R.G Collingwood]]
*[[R.G Collingwood]]
*[[Cornel West]]
*[[Cornel West]]
*[[Richard Wolin]]
*[[Richard Wolin]]
==See also==
==See also==
