| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Brill's series in church history and religious culture, 1572-4107 ; volume 83 |
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Brill's series in church history and religious culture ; v. 83.
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| Contents |
Chapter 3 The War of the Biographers -- 1 The Pietist Front: Christian Gerber and the Historia derer Wiedergebohrnen in Sachsen -- 2 The First Literary Depictions of the Lives of Christian Thomasius and August Hermann Francke -- 3 The World of the Copper Engravers -- 4 The Harsh Laws of Competition -- 5 Eulogies, Dialogues of the Dead, (Auto)Biographies: The "Instability" of Literary Genres -- Chapter 4 The Wolffian Leibniz -- 1 S. W. -- 2 The Argument with Johann Franz Budde -- 3 Eclecticism, the Mathematical Method, Atheism -- 4 How Many Authors? |
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Chapter 8 Balthasar Bekker's Remorse -- 1 The Exorcism on Peter Otte -- 2 Cartesianism and Demonology in 18th-Century Germany -- 3 The Pact with the Devil -- 4 More on the Engravers: The Identity of "M. B." -- 5 Some Deliberations on the Origin, Authorship, and Dissemination of the Dialogue -- 6 Necromancy and Conversations in the Realm of Spirits -- Conclusion -- 1 The "Underworlds" of the Dialogues of the Dead: Which Level of Clandestineness -- 2 Four Reasons for Anonymity -- 3 "Material" Evidence and Intellectual History -- 4 The Question of Authorship -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"For the first time, this book reconstructs the fascinating story of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" published in Germany in the early eighteenth century. The texts stage fictional debates between some of the most famous thinkers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Leibniz, Thomasius and Bekker. The dialogues were originally published as cheap prints and very few copies now survive; until today the links between these texts and the very existence of this textual corpus have remained unknown. Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of these texts in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment. The German edition of this book was awarded the prestigious Geisteswissenschaften international prize"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the original German into English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill, viewed March 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, German -- 18th century.
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Dead in literature.
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Underground literature -- Germany -- History and criticism
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Enlightenment.
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German literature.
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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German literature
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Enlightenment
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Dead in literature
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Philosophy, German
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Underground literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldbloom, Gwendolin, translator.
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| LC no. |
2021045495 |
| ISBN |
9004465030 |
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9789004465039 |
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