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Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism : The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800 / Frederick C. Beiser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beiser, Frederick C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservatism.
- Conservatisme.
- Franse Revolutie.
- Liberalism.
- Liberalisme.
- Philosophy, German.
- Political science.
- Politieke filosofie.
- Politik.
- Politische Philosophie.
- Romanticism.
- Romantiek.
- Conservatism--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1740-1806.
- Liberalism--Germany.
- Philosophy, German--18th century.
- Romanticism--Germany.
- Local Subjects:
- Conservatism--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1740-1806.
- Liberalism--Germany.
- Philosophy, German--18th century.
- Romanticism--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (447 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- They join the greatest boldness in thought to the most obedient character. So Madame de Stael described German intellectuals at the close of the 18th century, and her view of this schism between the intellectual and the political has stood virtually unchallenged for 200 years. This book lays to rest Madam de Stael's legacy, the myth of the apolitical German. In a narrative history of ideas that proceeds from his book The Fate of Reason, Frederick Beiser discusses how the French Revolution, with a rationalism and an irrationalism that altered the world, transformed and politicized German philosophy and its central concern: the authority and limits of reason.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. Liberalism
- 1. GERMAN LIBERALISM IN THE 1790S
- 2. THE POLITICS OF KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- 3. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS IN J. G. FICHTE'S 1794 WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE
- 4. THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER, 1781-1800
- 5. THE EARLY POLITICAL THEORY OF WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT
- 6. THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF F. H. JACOBI
- 7. GEORG FORSTER, THE GERMAN JACOBIN
- PART II. Herder and Early German Romanticism
- 8. THE POLITICAL THEORY OF J. G. HERDER
- 9. EARLY ROMANTIC POLITICAL THEORY
- 10. THE EARLY POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
- 11. THE POLITICAL THEORY OF NOVALIS
- PART III. Conservatism
- 12. THE RISE OF GERMAN CONSERVATISM
- 13. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF C. M. WIELAND
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-41897-2
- OCLC:
- 1013950192
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