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Religion, reason, and culture in the age of Goethe /

The eighteenth century is usually considered to be a time of increasing secularization in which the primacy of theology was replaced by the authority of reason, yet this endeavor played itself out in a social and political reality that was heavily impacted by religious customs and institutions. ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- (Editor ), Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2013.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Wieland and Herder; 1: "Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and Religion; 2: Personal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the Afterlife; Part II: Schiller and Goethe; 3: Clever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual; 4: "Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and Faust; 5: Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"; Part III: Kleist and Hölderlin
  • 6: Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in Kleist7: Catholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary Discourses; 8: Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as Muse; Part IV: Leibniz, Spinoza, and Their Legacy; 9: Leibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony; 10: "The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = x; Contributors; Index; Backcover