History of Islam in German thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche / Ian Almond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almond, Ian, 1969-

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history ; 11.

Routledge studies in cultural history ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbors. Exploring a variety of 'neat compartmentalizations' at work in the representations of Islam, as well as distinct vocabularies employed by these key intellectuals (theological, political, philological, poetic), Ian Almond parses these vocabularies to examine the importance of Is

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Leibniz, Historicism and the Plague of Islam; 2 Kant, Islam and the Preservation of Boundaries; 3 Herder's Arab Fantasies; 4 Keeping the Turks Out of Islam: Goethe's Ottoman Plan; 5 Friedrich Schlegel and the Emptying of Islam; 6 Hegel and the Disappearance of Islam; 7 Marx the Moor; 8 Nietzsche's Peace with Islam; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-26889-4

1-282-31539-0

9786612315398

0-203-86728-9

9780203867280

OCLC:

466182718