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

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Schleiermacher, Friedrich

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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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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.

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ISBN 10:  0521474485 ISBN 13:  9780521474481
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996
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