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The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill

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This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had a...
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  • 17 February 1995
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Jacobi's polemical tract Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn propelled him to notoriety in 1785. This work, as well as David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, Jacobi to Fichte, and the novel Allwill, is included in George di Giovanni's translation. In a comprehensive introductory essay di Giovanni situates Jacobi in the historical and philosophical context of his time, and shows how Jacobi's life and work reflect the tensions inherent in the late Enlightenment.
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Price: $55.00
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Publication Date: 17 February 1995
ISBN: 9780773564121
Format: eBook
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
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"The contribution this work makes defies exaggeration. It may rank in importance, say, with the first English translation of Pascal or Vico. I have every reason to believe it will find its place on library shelves everywhere as the accepted standard translation of Jacobi in English." F.L. Jackson, Department of Philosophy, Memorial University.