Overview
The first ever English translation of Franois Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence, making accessible to Anglophone readers some of the most significant texts, for a genuine understanding of his philosophy. This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of Franois Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics-all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin-as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis' philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution.
Full Product Details
Author: Francois Hemsterhuis ,
Daniel Whistler ,
Jacob van Sluis ,
Jacob Van Sluis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399525176
ISBN 10: 1399525174
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"The van Sluis and Whistler edition of The Philosophical Works of Fran�ois Hemsterhuis has been a revelation to anyone working in late modern, German romantic and/or ancient philosophy. This third volume of unpublished essays and correspondence is a treasure trove, featuring numerous texts addressing his interpretation of Spinoza, his understanding of the ""Pantheism controversy"" between Jacobi and Mendelssohn, including the 'Letter on Atheism' first published by Jacobi, as well as additional essays highlighting his views in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. Hemsterhuis's wide-ranging correspondence sheds light on every aspect of his thinking, as well as upon Hemsterhuis the person. van Sluis and Whistler have done us all a great favor in providing this material in English in a definitive scholarly edition.-- ""Andrew J. Mitchell, Emory University"""
Author Information
Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author and editor of numerous volumes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophy, including the three-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of Fran ois Hemsterhuis, The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (EUP, 2020), The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022).Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. He has published on the history of theology and philosophy in the Dutch Republic and he is the editor of the critical edition of Hemsterhuis' Oeuvres philosophiques (Brill, 2015).
