By Dorothea E. von Mücke
ISBN-10: 023117246X
ISBN-13: 9780231172462
Rethinking the connection among eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment proposal and perform, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complicated and sometimes missed spiritual origins of recent secular discourse. Mapping superb routes of alternate among the spiritual and aesthetic writings of the interval and recentering issues of authorship and viewers, this e-book revitalizes scholarship at the Enlightenment.
The research engages with 3 severe different types: aesthetics, authorship, and the general public sphere, tracing the connection among spiritual and aesthetic modes of reflective contemplation, autobiography and the hermeneutics of the self, and the discursive construction of the general public sphere. Focusing principally on German highbrow existence, this serious engagement additionally extends to France via Rousseau and to England via Shaftesbury. Rereading canonical works and lesser-known texts by means of Goethe, Lessing, and Herder, the e-book demanding situations universal narratives recounting the increase of empiricist philosophy, the assumption of the "sensible" person, and the thought of the fashionable writer as famous person, bringing new viewpoint to the Enlightenment ideas of intuition, force, genius, and the general public sphere.
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