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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.
Price: $153.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series in Church History
Publication Date:
16 December 2021
ISBN: 9789004454538
Format: Hardcover
Reviews of the German edition:
"[A] fascinating study (...). Quite apart from the mass of interesting information she provides, Riccarda Suitner can be credited with having salvaged a genre, not only neglected but on the verge of complete disappearance."- Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, in: Church History and Religious Culture, Volume 97 (2017).
"The dialogues studied in her book shed new light on the early German Enlightenment (…). Suitner’s book tells a lot about how things really went." - Andreas Blank, Alpen‐Adria‐Universität Klagenfurt, in: Renaissance Quarterly Volume 71 (2018).
"[A] fascinating study (...). Quite apart from the mass of interesting information she provides, Riccarda Suitner can be credited with having salvaged a genre, not only neglected but on the verge of complete disappearance."- Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, in: Church History and Religious Culture, Volume 97 (2017).
"The dialogues studied in her book shed new light on the early German Enlightenment (…). Suitner’s book tells a lot about how things really went." - Andreas Blank, Alpen‐Adria‐Universität Klagenfurt, in: Renaissance Quarterly Volume 71 (2018).
Riccarda Suitner, Ph.D. (2014), currently researches and teaches at the German Historical Institute in Rome and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Her publications focus on intellectual and religious history between the sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.