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Dying with an Enlightening Fall: Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals,
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Dying with an Enlightening Fall: Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals, 1764-1800 Hardcover - 2001

by David Pickus


From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Dying with an Enlightening Fall: Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals, 1764-1800
  • Author David Pickus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 293
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Date 2001-02
  • ISBN 9780739101537 / 0739101536
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.22 x 0.87 in (22.91 x 15.80 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - Intellectual life - 18th century, Public opinion - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00040195
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.8

About the author

David Pickusis a Fellow in the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.