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Rival enlightenments : civil and metaphysical philosophy in early modern Germany /

Rival Enlightenments 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 pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hunter, Ian, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Ideas in context.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Rival Enlightenments. 1. University metaphysics. 2. Civil philosophy
  • pt. II. Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy. 3. Leibniz's 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.