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A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of crucial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

"The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?' Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in 'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of modern times." -- Publisher's description

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Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions, affinities, and conflicts between the two, as they play out in German literature from Goethe, Schiller and Kleist down to Kafka and Thomas Mann, are explored in this volume, with one section examining their interplay in the neglected Austrian Enlightenment. Thanks to the historical and textual criticism of the Bible, the?sea of faith? began its withdrawal sooner in Germany than in England, and this collection traces its retreat, looking especially at Nietzsche's militant opposition to Christianity and at the expression in some modernist writing of a distinctly post-Christian and even post-human outlook.00Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. This book aims to make more widely available some 27 of his essays on the theme of Enlightenment and religion, in both Germany and Austria, which are otherwise widely scattered in journals published over the last twenty years

The OCR A Level Chemistry A Revision Guide provides comprehensive, specification-matched content, packed with engaging revision and practice material to keep you focused. It also contains a wealth of exam-style questions to test your knowledge and skills to help you fully prepare for the exams.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and diaries. Ritchie Robertson draws out key themes of his work and explains its lasting importance.

Pubblicata a Vienna nel 1906, quest'opera prima di Musil, ricca di elementi autobiografici, ha tuttavia per grande protagonista l'adolescenza, quella particolare fase di iniziazione alla vita per cui, quali che siano i percorsi individuali, sembra inevitabile per ogni essere umano sorbire "quella piccola quantità di veleno che occorre per liberare l'anima dalla sua salute troppo sicura e compiaciuta e dargliene in cambio una più fine, acuta e comprensiva". Ma, in una dialettica che carica il romanzo di ulteriori suggestioni, la crescita del protagonista si compie in un'atmosfera gravida di vecchiaia, nella roccaforte di un impero in agonia, che corre verso la tragedia del primo conflitto mondiale.

In der Schrift „Über das Erhabene“, deren Entstehung umstritten, mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit aber auf 1801 zu datieren ist, geht es Friedrich Schiller um die Anwendung des von Burke und Kant hergeleiteten Begriffs des „Erhabenen“ auf die ästhetische und noch mehr auf die moralische Erziehung des Menschen. Durch das Erhabene tritt das moderne Subjekt aus der Ordnung der Natur und gelangt erst zur Freiheit. Es fragt sich nun, wie diese Begrifflichkeit mit dem Verhalten der Hauptpersonen im zeitgleich entstandenen Drama „Maria Stuart“ zu vereinbaren ist. Wird, wie häufig angenommen, die schöne Seele Maria durch Schuld und Sühne geläutert und am Schluss des Dramas zur leidgeprüften Verkörperung des Erhabenen? Zu zeigen ist, dass Schiller durchaus keine „Marionetten mit himmelblauen Nasen“ (Büchner), sondern lebendige, dreidimensionale, mit Hilfe einer wirklichkeitsnahen Psychologie entworfene Charaktere auf die Bühne bringt, und dass das Verhältnis zwischen dem abstrakten Begriff und dem Verhalten der Bühnencharaktere kompliziert und widerspruchsvoll ist.