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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Briefwechsel 1786. Nr. 1307-1608. Gesamtausgabe Der Bayerischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften
Contributor(s): Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich (Author), Jaeschke, Walter (Editor), Paimann, Rebecca (Editor)
ISBN: 377282269X     ISBN-13: 9783772822698
Publisher: Frommann-Holzboog
OUR PRICE:   $418.48  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Language: German
Published: September 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy
Series: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Briefwechsel - Nachlass - Dokumen
Physical Information: 463 pages
 
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Der umfangreiche Briefwechsel des fur Jacobi so ereignisreichen Jahres 1786 spiegelt neben privaten Sorgen die philosophischen Auseinandersetzungen: zunachst Jacobis Streit mit den Berliner Aufklarern um seine Spinoza-Briefe und um Mendelssohns An die Freunde Lessings, in den er mit seiner Verteidigung Wider Mendelssohns Beschuldigungen eingreift. Hieran schliesst sich der Streit um den Vorwurf des 'Jesuitismus' und 'Kryptokatholizismus' an, den die Berliner Aufklarer u.a. gegen Jacobi erheben. Der Briefwechsel erschliesst ferner den engen Austausch mit Hamann uber dessen Fliegenden Brief sowie die Umstande von Jacobis Englandaufenthalt und die Vorarbeiten zu seinem Werk David Hume uber den Glauben. The comprehensive correspondence in 1786, a year which was very eventful for Jacobi, reflects, apart from private worries, the philosophical disputes. They began with the dispute between Jacobi and the philosophers of the Enlightenment in Berlin and concerned his Spinoza Letters and Mendelssohn's An die Freunde Lessings, (To the Friends of Lessing), in which he intervened with his advocacy entitled Wider Mendelssohn's Beschuldigungen (Against Mendelssohn's Accusations). This was followed by the dispute about the allegation of Jesuitism and crypto Catholicism, made by the Enlightenment philosophers in Berlin, among others, against Jacobi. The correspondence also shows the close contact with Hamann concerning his Fliegenden Brief (Flying Letter) as well as the circumstances of Jacobi's stay in England and the groundwork for his David Hume uber den Glauben (David Hume on Faith).