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Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment

Author : Thomas Ahnert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781580462044
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment written by Thomas Ahnert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655-1728).The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence of the Enlightenment than is often recognized. In this book Thomas Ahnert analyzes the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655-1728). Thomasius is now known mainly for his "enlightened" intellectual reform program, but Thomasius also believed that such reform necessarily involved a regeneration of Christian faith, which had been corrupted by self-interested clergymen and ecclesiastical institutions. This book is the first to examine the importance of Thomasius's complex religious beliefs for the entire spectrum of his main intellectual interests, which ranged from moral philosophy and law to history and the explanation of natural phenomena. Thomas Ahnert is Lecturer in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Edinburgh. complex religious beliefs for the entire spectrum of his main intellectual interests, which ranged from moral philosophy and law to history and the explanation of natural phenomena. Thomas Ahnert is Lecturer in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Edinburgh. complex religious beliefs for the entire spectrum of his main intellectual interests, which ranged from moral philosophy and law to history and the explanation of natural phenomena. Thomas Ahnert is Lecturer in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Edinburgh. complex religious beliefs for the entire spectrum of his main intellectual interests, which ranged from moral philosophy and law to history and the explanation of natural phenomena. Thomas Ahnert is Lecturer in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Edinburgh.

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism

Author : Peter H. Reill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520414535
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism written by Peter H. Reill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and ideal of the Enlightenment from 1740 to 1790. Concentrating on the nature of their historical consciousness, Peter Hanns Reill addresses two basic issues in the interpretation of the Enlightenment: to what degree can one speak of the unity of the Enlightenment and to what extent can the Enlightenment be characterized as “modern”? Reill attempts to revise the traditional interpretation of the Enlightenment as an age insensitive to the postulates of modern historical thought and to dissolve the alleged opposition of the Enlightenment to later intellectual developments such as Idealism. He argues that German Enlightened thinkers generated the general presuppositions upon which modern historical thought is founded. Asserting that the Enlightenment was not a unitary movement, Reill shows how each phase of it had unique elements and made contributions to Enlightenment thought as a whole. Exploring the forms of thought, the mental climate, and the different intellectual milieus in which the German thinkers operated, Reill demonstrates that they were confronted by two opposing intellectual traditions: German Pietism and rationalism. In attempting to reconcile both without submerging one into the other, these Enlightenment thinkers turned to historical speculation and learning. They discussed the relation between religious and rationalistic assumptions, the transformation of the concepts of religion and law, the interaction between aesthetic and historical thought, the creation of a theory of understanding to support the new idea of history, the use of causation in historical analysis, and the rediscovery of the Middle Ages. Reill reveals how they anticipated the work of more famous thinkers of the nineteenth century and establishes the conceptual similarities between thinkers generally thought to be more different than alike. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment

Author : Toshimasa Yasukata
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198033109
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment written by Toshimasa Yasukata and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) stands as a key figure in German intellectual history, a bridge joining Luther, Leibniz, and German idealism. Despite his well-recognized importance in the history of thought, Lessing as theologian or philosopher of religion remains an enigmatic figure. Scholars refer to the "riddle" or "mystery" of Lessing, a mystery that has proved intractable because of his reticence on the subject of the final conclusions of his intellectual project. Toshimasa Yasukata seeks to unravel this mystery. Based on intensive study of the entire corpus of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings as well as the extensive secondary literature, Yasukata's work takes us into the systematic core of Lessing's thought. From his penetrating and sophisticated analysis of Lessing's developing position on Christianity and reason, there emerges a fresh image of Lessing as a creative modern mind, who is both shaped by and gives shape to the Christian heritage. The first comprehensive study in English of Lessing's theological and philosophical thought, this book will appeal to all those interested in the history of modern theology, as well as specialists in the Enlightenment and the German romantic movement.

Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism

Author : Michael Printy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521478391
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism written by Michael Printy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which 18th-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state.

Visions of the Enlightenment

Author : Michael Sauter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429958
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Enlightenment written by Michael Sauter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the public battle sparked by the promulgation in 1788 of Prussia's Edict on Religion. Historians have seen in this moment nothing less than the end of the Enlightenment in Prussia. This book begs to differ and argues that social control had a long "enlightened" pedigree. Using both archival and published documents, this book reveals deeply the entire Prussian elite was invested in social control of the masses, especially in the public sphere. What emerges is a picture of the Enlightenment in Prussia as a conservative enterprise that was limited by not merely the state but also the social anxities of the Prussian elite.

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment

Author : Toshimasa Yasukata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment written by Toshimasa Yasukata and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Religious Enlightenment

Author : David Sorkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188181
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Religious Enlightenment written by David Sorkin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature. Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William Warburton in England, Moses Mendelssohn in Prussia, and Adrien Lamourette in France, among others. He demonstrates that, in the century before the French Revolution, the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism, to name but three such movements, were influential participants in the eighteenth century's burgeoning public sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations. Sorkin shows how they pioneered a religious Enlightenment that embraced the new science of Copernicus and Newton and the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, uniting reason and revelation to renew faith and piety. This book reveals how Enlightenment theologians refashioned belief as a solution to the dogmatism and intolerance of previous centuries. Read it and you will never view the Enlightenment the same way.

A Primer on German Enlightenment

Author : Sabine Roehr
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826209979
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Primer on German Enlightenment written by Sabine Roehr and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation into English of the work of late German Enlightenment thinker Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823), best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical philosophy were significant for the development of philosophy after Kant. Roehr prefaces the translation with an approximately 150-page analysis of the relevant moral, religious, political, and philosophical thought of the German Enlightenment. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment

Author : Riccarda Suitner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465030
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment written by Riccarda Suitner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.

Phaedon

Author : Moses Mendelssohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phaedon written by Moses Mendelssohn and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment

Author : Martin Mulsow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100924115X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment written by Martin Mulsow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the diverse intellectual landscape of the German Enlightenment, exploring radical writing between 1680 and 1720.

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Author : Simon Grote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110920
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory written by Simon Grote and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

God in the Enlightenment

Author : William J. Bulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190267089
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book God in the Enlightenment written by William J. Bulman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, God not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it. By exposing the Enlightenment's close ties to the traditions of the Renaissance, the passions of the Reformation, and the stirrings of globalization, God in the Enlightenment offers a spectral view of the age of lights.

Enlightenment and Religion in German and Austrian Literature

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781884669
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Religion in German and Austrian Literature written by Ritchie Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions, affinities, and conflicts between the two, as they play out in German literature from Goethe, Schiller and Kleist down to Kafka and Thomas Mann, are explored in this volume, with one section examining their interplay in the neglected Austrian Enlightenment. Thanks to the historical and textual criticism of the Bible, the 'sea of faith' began its withdrawal sooner in Germany than in England, and this collection traces its retreat, looking especially at Nietzsche's militant opposition to Christianity and at the expression in some modernist writing of a distinctly post-Christian and even post-human outlook. Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. This book aims to make more widely available some 27 of his essays on the theme of Enlightenment and religion, in both Germany and Austria, which are otherwise widely scattered in journals published over the last twenty years.

Enlightenment Underground

Author : Martin Mulsow
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938163
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment Underground written by Martin Mulsow and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online supplement,"Mulsow: Additions to Notes drawn from the 2002 edition of Moderne aus dem Untergrund": full versions of nearly 300 notes that were truncated in the print edition. Hosted on H. C. Erik Midelfort's website. Martin Mulsow’s seismic reinterpretation of the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany won awards and renown in its original German edition, and now H. C. Erik Midelfort's translation makes this sensational book available to English-speaking readers. In Enlightenment Underground, Mulsow shows that even in the late seventeenth century some thinkers in Germany ventured to express extremely dangerous ideas, but did so as part of a secret underground. Scouring manuscript collections across northern Europe, Mulsow studied the writings of countless hitherto unknown radical jurists, theologians, historians, and dissident students who pushed for the secularization of legal, political, social, and religious knowledge. Often their works circulated in manuscript, anonymously, or as clandestinely published books. Working as a philosophical microhistorian, Mulsow has discovered the identities of several covert radicals and linked them to circles of young German scholars, many of whom were connected with the vibrant radical cultures of the Netherlands, England, and Denmark. The author reveals how radical ideas and contributions to intellectual doubt came from Socinians and Jews, church historians and biblical scholars, political theorists, and unemployed university students. He shows that misreadings of humorous or ironic works sometimes gave rise to unintended skeptical thoughts or corrosively political interpretations of Christianity. This landmark book overturns stereotypical views of the early Enlightenment in Germany as cautious, conservative, and moderate, and replaces them with a new portrait that reveals a movement far more radical, unintended, and puzzling than previously suspected.

The Enlightenment

Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199591784
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment written by John Robertson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.

The Radical Enlightenment in Germany

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004362215
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Enlightenment in Germany written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the impact of the Radical Enlightenment on German culture during the eighteenth century, taking recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure. The collection documents the cultural dimension of the debate on the Radical Enlightenment. In a series of readings of known and lesser-known fictional and essayistic texts, individual contributors show that these can be read not only as articulating a conflict between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, but also as documents of a debate about the precise nature of Enlightenment. At stake is the question whether the Enlightenment should aim to be an atheist, materialist, and political movement that wants to change society, or, in spite of its belief in rationality, should respect monarchy, aristocracy, and established religion. Contributors are: Mary Helen Dupree, Sean Franzel, Peter Höyng, John A. McCarthy, Monika Nenon, Carl Niekerk, Daniel Purdy, William Rasch, Ann Schmiesing, Paul S. Spalding, Gabriela Stoicea, Birgit Tautz, Andrew Weeks, Chunjie Zhang