Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) - Hardcover

Schleiermacher, Friedrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521474485 ISBN 13: 9780521474481

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This edition presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time. 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. This fully annotated edition also contains a chronology and notes on further reading.

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Book Description:

This edition of a classic of modern Protestant religious thought powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. It presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time and contains a chronology and notes on further reading.

About the Author:

Friedrich Schleiermacher was an influencial German theologian and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy. His work also forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521474485
• ISBN 13: 9780521474481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 175
• Editor: Crouter Richard