On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era : Collected Essays.
This elegant collection of essays ranges across eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, covering philosophy, science, literature and religion in the 'Age of Goethe.' A recognised authority in the field, Nisbet grapples with the major voices of the Enlightenment and gives pride of place...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Lucretius in Eighteenth-Century Germany: With a Commentary on Goethe's Poem 'Metamorphosis of Animals'
- 2. On the Rise of Toleration in Europe: Lessing and the German Contribution
- 3. On the Function of Mystification in Lessing's Masonic Dialogues, Ernst and Falk
- 4. The Rationalisation of the Holy Trinity from Lessing to Hegel
- 5. Lessing and Misogyny: Die Matrone von Ephesus
- 6. The German Reception of an Irish Eccentric: The Controversy over Thomas Amory's The Life of John Buncle, Esq. (1778-79)
- 7. Herder's The Oldest Document of the Human Race and his Philosophy of Religion and History
- 8. The Ethical Foundation of Goethe's Scientific Thought
- 9. Natural History and Human History in Goethe, Herder, and Kant
- 10. Schiller's 'Ode to Joy': A Reappraisal
- 11. Laocoon in Germany: The Reception of the Group since Winckelmann
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index.