Rival Enlightenments - Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

Informationen zum Autor Ian Hunter is Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Zusammenfassung Rival Enlightenments! first published in 2001! is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideiai. Combining careful scholarship with vivid polemic! Hunter presents insights for philosophers and historians alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and texts used; Note on conventions; Introduction; Part I. Rival Enlightenments: 1. University metaphysics; 2. Civil philosophy; Part II. Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy: 3. Leibniz' political metaphysics; 4. Pufendorf's civil philosophy; 5. Thomasius and the desacralisation of politics; 6. Kant and the preservation of metaphysics; Postscript: the kingdom of truth and the civil kingdom; List of references; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Hunter, Ian (Griffith University Hunter
• Assisted by: Lorraine Daston (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521025492
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02549-2
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education