| Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History Contributor(s): Sulzer, Johann Georg (Author), Miller, Eric (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0761830863 ISBN-13: 9780761830863 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $53.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Art | History - General - Nature |
| Dewey: 508 |
| LCCN: 2004116239 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.43 lbs) 148 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today. |