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15 - Jacobi as Literary Author

from Part IV - Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
George di Giovanni
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter addresses Jacobi’s literary contributions, Edward Allwill’s Collection of Letters and Woldemar, in the context of his critique of both Enlightenment reason and feeling. Both, Jacobi argues, undermined human individuality and freedom.

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JacobiSpinozafatalismfeelingseductionnovelsAllwillWoldemar
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
 , pp. 286 - 301
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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