Title On religion : speeches to its cultured despisers / Friedrich Schleiermacher ; translated and edited by Richard Crouter

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xlv, 128 pages) Series Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy. Contents Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Further reading -- A note on editions -- On religion : speeches to its cultured despisers -- First speech : apology -- Second speech : on the essence of religion -- Third speech : on self-formation for religion -- Fourth speech : on the social element in religion ; or, on Church and priesthood -- Fifth speech : on the religions -- Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Religion -- Early works to 1800 Religion Religieuze ervaring. Genre/Form Early works Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511814969 0511814968 1107484723 9781107484726

Other Titles Über die Religion. English

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