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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 relevanceādespite their frequent dismissalāto us in the twenty-first century.
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 relevanceādespite their frequent dismissalāto us in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780226421834, 9780226205106eBook ISBN
9780226205243Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- References, Translations, and Usage
- Introduction: . . . or Darkness?
- 1. Coming of Age: The Primal Scene
- 2. A World of Our Own: An Epistemology for Action
- 3. Hope in History: Making the Past Serve the Future
- 4. Talking to Tyrants: Pens against Power
- 5. Cosmopolitan Quandaries: Among Savages, Far and Near
- 6. The Empty Heavens: From Dogma to Ethics
- 7. Apples and After: The Gravity of Science
- 8. Good Guardianship: Light through Education
- 9. Communication and Beyond: Means or End?
- 10. The Full Earth: A Lyrical Enlightenment
- 11. Peace in Whose Time? The Ultimate Prize
- A Conclusion? Toward Enlightenment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index