Ian Hunter

Rival Enlightenments (eBook, PDF)

Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

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, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This study reveals the extraordinary historical self-consciousness of the civil philosophers, who repudiated university metaphysics as inimical to the intellectual formation of those administering desacralized territorial states. The book argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical history may itself be seen as a continuation of the struggle between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful and well-documented scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511031830
• Artikelnr.: 38192665

Autorenporträt

Ian Hunter is a children's author who lives on the south coast of England, UK, with his partner and their two cheeky cats (aka writing mascots).He loves anything creative and can usually be found writing, planning an adventure holiday, or escaping to a fantasy world.Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos is Ian's debut novel. He has many more stories to tell and is excited to share them with children and young-hearted adults like him everywhere.

Inhaltsangabe

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.