Light in Germany: scenes from an unknown enlightenment
Germany’s political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goeth...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago [u.a.]
The Univ. of Chicago Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Reed, Terence James, 1937-, Light in Germany], in: Goethe yearbook : publ. of the Goethe Society of North America Bd. 23 (2016), Seite 290-291 (2016) (Helfer, Martha B., 1962-) [Rezension von: Reed, Terence James, 1937-, Light in Germany], in: The modern language review : MLR Bd. 112, Heft 1 (2017), Seite 280-281 (2017) (Martinec, Thomas, 1971-) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Solution
/ Intellectual history
B Germany / Solution / Intellectual history 1680-1790 |
| Further subjects: | B
Germany
Intellectual life 18th century
B Enlightenment (Germany) |
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| Summary: | Germany’s political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany’s Enlightenment. Reed looks closely at the arguments, achievements, conflicts, and controversies of these major thinkers and how their development of a lucid and active liberal thinking matured in the late eighteenth century into an imaginative branching that ran through philosophy, theology, literature, historiography, science, and politics. He traces the various pathways of their thought and how one engendered another, from the principle of thinking for oneself to the development of a critical epistemology; from literature’s assessment of the past to the formulation of a poetic ideal of human development. Ultimately, Reed shows how the ideas of the German Enlightenment have proven their value in modern secular democracies and are still of great relevance—despite their frequent dismissal—to us in the twenty-first century. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 284 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-20510-6 978-0-226-42183-4 |
