Berlin's Forgotten Future: City, History, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Germany

by Matt Erlin

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Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in precisely the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment. The author's demonstration of Berlin's historical-theoretical significance...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469614634

ISBN13:9781469614632

Release Date:March 2004

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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