Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches To Its Cultured Despisers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) - Softcover

Schleiermacher, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521479754 ISBN 13: 9780521479752

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

A classic of modern religious thought, Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is here presented in Richard Crouter's acclaimed English translation of the 1799 edition, originally published in Cambridge Texts in German Philosophy. Written when its youthful author was deeply involved in German Romanticism and the critique of Kant's moral and religious philosophy, it is a masterly expression of Protestant Christian apologetics of the modern period, which powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. Unlike the revised versions of 1806 and 1821, which modify the language of feeling and intuition and translate the argument into more traditional academic and Christian categories, the 1799 text more fully reveals its original audience's literary and social world. Richard Crouter's introduction places the work in the milieu of early German Romanticism, Kant criticism, the revival of Spinoza and Plato studies, and theories of literary criticism and of the physical sciences, and his fully annotated edition also includes a chronology and notes on further reading.

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Review:

."..a superb new edition and translation of the original-and most forceful-version of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Uber die Religion, the volume which is sometimes taken as a new starting point for modern religious thought." Journal of Theological Studies

Book Description:

Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought which powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This fully annotated edition includes a historical introduction, a chronology and notes on further reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521479754
• ISBN 13: 9780521479752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176