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Light in Germany (Hardcover)
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Light in Germany (Hardcover)
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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
relevance - despite their frequent dismissal-to us in the
twenty-first century.
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