Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

by T.J. Reed

Book Overview

Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022642183X
• ISBN13: 9780226421834
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"