The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment

by Riccarda Suitner

For the first time, this book reconstructs the fascinating story of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" published in Germany in the early eighteenth century. The texts stage fictional debates between some of the most famous thinkers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Leibniz, Thomasius and Bekker. The dialogues were originally published as cheap prints and very few copies now survive; until today the links...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004454535
• ISBN13: 9789004454538
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 292 Pages