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  • The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment

    The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment by Mulsow, Martin;

    Series: Ideas in Context; 148;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 13 July 2023

    • ISBN 9781009241151
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages413 pages
    • Size 235x158x28 mm
    • Weight 750 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A vivid account of the diverse intellectual landscape of the German Enlightenment, exploring radical writing between 1680 and 1720.

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    Long description:

    The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions, on the basis of secular natural law, an anti-metaphysical epistemology, and new social ethics. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment? Martin Mulsow offers fresh and surprising answers to these questions by reconstructing the emergence and dissemination of some of the radical writings created between 1680 and 1720. The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment explores the little-known freethinkers, persecuted authors, and secretly circulating manuscripts of the era, applying an interdisciplinary perspective to the German Enlightenment. By engaging with these cross-regional, clandestine texts, a dense and highly original picture emerges of the German early Enlightenment, with its strong links with the experience of the rest of Europe.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; 1. The mortal soul: biblicism, materialism and the new science; 2. Nature and idolatry. The ambivalence of the natural from Henry Stubbe to Christian Gabriel Fischer; 3. The doctrine of the temperaments: medicine and the problem of atheism; 4. Natural law, religion and moral scepticism; 5. From Becmann to Stosch: the Socinian contexts of the concordia rationis et fidei [the harmony of reason and faith] (1692); 6. The founders of religion as human beings: Moses and Jesus between inflation and deflation; Conclusion.

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