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The dialogues of the dead of the early German enlightenment
- Title
- The dialogues of the dead of the early German enlightenment / by Riccarda Suitner ; translated by Gwendolin Goldbloom.
- Author
- Suitner, Riccarda
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Goldbloom, Gwendolin
- Description
- xi, 279 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Brill's series in church history and religious culture, 1572-4107 ; volume 83
- Uniform Title
- Philosophischen Totengespräche der Frühaufklärung. English
- Brill's series in church history and religious culture ; v. 83.
- Alternative Title
- Philosophischen Totengespräche der Frühaufklärung.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- In English; translated from the original German.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2416
- ISBN
- 9789004454538
- 9004454535
- LCCN
- 2021045494
- 40030923596
- OCLC
- 1263742844
- Author
- Suitner, Riccarda, author.
- Title
- The dialogues of the dead of the early German enlightenment / by Riccarda Suitner ; translated by Gwendolin Goldbloom.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's series in church history and religious culture, 1572-4107 ; volume 83Brill's series in church history and religious culture ; v. 83.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- In English; translated from the original German.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Added Author
- Goldbloom, Gwendolin, translator.
- Translation Of:
- Translation of: Philosophischen Totengespräche der Frühaufklärung. Hamburg : Felix Meiner Verlag, 2016
- Other Form:
- Online version: Suitner, Riccarda. Dialogues of the dead of the early German enlightenment Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 9789004465039 (DLC) 2021045495
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030923596
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2416