Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis
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- ISBN 9781399525176
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The first ever English translation of Fran ois Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence
Translates Hemsterhuis' fragmentary notes, treatises and letters in English for the first time, supplementing and informing the texts published in volumes 1 and 2 of the series
Introduces the first translation into any language that is based on a critical and complete edition of Hemsterhuis' correspondence and unedited works
Forms a scholarly edition with full apparatus and commentaries that will elucidate the meaning of Hemsterhuis' texts
Includes introductory essays that cover the full range of subjects at stake in the texts by world-leading scholars of Dutch philosophy like Jonathan I. Israel and Henri A. Krop
A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism.
The first ever English translation of Fran ois Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence, making accessible to Anglophone readers some of the most significant texts, for a genuine understanding of his philosophy.
This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of Fran ois Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis' philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution.
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).
