Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800

Name: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800
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ISBN: 9780674257276

ISBN-10: 0674257278

ISBN-13: 9780674257276

Edition: 1992

Authors: Frederick C. Beiser

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They join the greatest boldness in thought to the most obedient character. So Madame de Stael described German intellectuals at the close of the 18th century, and her view of this schism between the intellectual and the political has stood virtually unchallenged for 200 years. This book lays to rest Madam de Stael's legacy, the myth of the apolitical German. In a narrative history of ideas that proceeds from his book The Fate of Reason, Frederick Beiser discusses how the French Revolution, with a rationalism and an irrationalism that altered the world, transformed and politicized German philosophy and its central concern: the authority and limits of reason.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Liberalism



German Liberalism in the 1790s



The Politics of Kant's Critical Philosophy



Philosophy and Politics in J. G. Fichte's 1794 Wissenschaftslehre



The Political Thought of Friedrich Schiller, 1781-1800



The Early Political Theory of Wilhelm Von Humboldt



The Political Thought of F. H. Jacobi



Georg Forster, the German Jacobin



Herder and Early German Romanticism



The Political Theory of J. G. Herder



Early Romantic Political Theory



The Early Politics and Aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel



The Political Theory of Novalis



Conservatism



The Rise of German Conservatism



The Political Philosophy of C. M. Wieland


Conclusion


Notes


Index