Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

(Part of the Ideas in Context Series and Ideas in Context Series)

by Ian Hunter

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Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. He treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideiai,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521025494

ISBN13:9780521025492

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:428 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History & Surveys Philosophy Political History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

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