Dialogues of Francois Hemsterhuis, 1778-1787
Regular price
€173.60
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Francois Hemsterhuis
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Francois Hemsterhuis
automatic-update
B06=Daniel Whistler
B06=Jacob van Sluis
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=GBC
Category=HP
Category=HPCD
Category=JFCX
Category=QDHR
Category=QDHR1
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
dialogues
Enlightenment
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Francois Hemsterhuis
French Enlightenment
German idealism
German romaticism
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
romanticism
Socrates
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781474488082
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The first English translation of Francois Hemsterhuis' widely influential late dialogues, which came to be entwined in contemporary philosophical debates in GermanyThe four published dialogues offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. Sophylus is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. Aristeaus is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. Simon is closely modelled on Plato's Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis' late ethics and aesthetics. Finally, Alexis the favourite work of many of the German Romantics uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom. Two editorial introductions supplement these translations the first by Daniel Whistler considers Hemsterhuis' relationship with Amelia Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call 'our philosophy' and the second by Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Holderlin's Hyperion and Novalis' Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular.
Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. He has published on the history of theology and philosophy in the Dutch Republic and he is the editor of the critical edition of Hemsterhuis’ Oeuvres philosophiques (Brill, 2015). Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author and editor of numerous volumes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophy, including the three-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis, The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (EUP, 2020), The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022).
