• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany

Hardcover

Series: Ideas in Context, Book 60

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521792657
ISBN13: 9780521792653
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 11 2001
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 paideia, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This landmark study argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical history may itself illustrate the continuing struggle between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy