Rival Enlightenments
Subtitle: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Ideas in Context)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780521025492
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Metaphysics & ontology; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Germany; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; History & Theory - General; Political; Philosophy : History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Philosophy : Political; Philosophy, German--History; Political Science / History & Theory; 17th century; Enlightenment; History; Philosophy, German; Philosophy, Modern
First sentence: We have suggested that, rather than representing the path taken by human reason's recovery of its own transcendental conditions, German university metaphysics was itself polemically enmeshed in the religious and political conflicts of the early modern period.