Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.
Contents:
Out of darkness -- Coming of age: the primal scene -- A world of our own: an epistemology for action -- Hope in history: making the past serve the future -- Talking to tyrants: pens against power -- Cosmopolitan quandaries: among savages, far and near -- The empty heavens: from dogma to ethics -- Apples and after: the gravity of science -- Good guardianship: light through education -- Communication and beyond: means or end? -- The full earth: a lyrical Enlightenment -- Peace in whose time? the ultimate prize -- A conclusion? toward Enlightenment.
Summary:
In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany's Enlightenment.--Provided by publisher
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