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Dying with an Enlightening Fall

Dying with an Enlightening Fall

Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals, 1764-1800

by David Pickus
Hardback
Publication Date: 14/02/2001

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Dying with an Enlightening Fall is a study of a critical but under-examined moment in German intellectual history. David Pickus encourages readers to discover the connections between the tumultuous events in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the critical self-perception of Germany's first generation of truly modern writers. At the same time that the Polish Republic of Nobles was annexed by its neighbors, the German Enlightenment reached its apex. Pickus claims that Poland's manifest failure to adapt to Europe's changing conditions, and its subsequent fall, made Poland a lesson in failure in the eyes of German thinkers. Poland allowed German intellectuals to formulate modern sensibilities; it became a necessary foil, defining what the modern age should be by what it was not.
ISBN:
9780739101537
9780739101537
Category:
Literature & literary studies
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14-02-2001
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x24mm
Weight:
0.52kg

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