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The Crisis of the European Mind 1680–1715: A Defining Intellectual Turning Point

"The crisis of the European mind, spanning from 1680 to 1715, represents a profound intellectual transformation in Western history where traditional authorities rooted in scripture and antiquity were systematically challenged by radical new currents in science, philosophy, and historical criticism. This transitional era dissolved the intellectual certainty of the seventeenth century and directly laid the structural and ideological foundations for the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Introduction to the Crisis of the European Mind The phrase "the crisis of the European mind" is most famously associated with the French cultural historian Paul H..."

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