Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe

by Patricia Simpson and Elisabeth Krimmer

Book Overview

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture.

The eighteenth century is usually considered to be a time of increasing secularization in which the primacy of theology was replaced by the authority of reason, yet this lofty intellectual endeavor played itself out in a social and political reality that was heavily impacted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135618
• ISBN13: 9781571135612
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"