Rival Enlightenments
Subtitle: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780521792653
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Pufendorf, Samuel,; Philosophy, German; History; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; History & Theory - General; Philosophy, German--History; Political Science / History & Theory; Thomasius, Christian,; Freiherr von,; 1632-1694; 1655-1728
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.