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The first ever English translation of Fran ois Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence
Translates Hemsterhuis' fragmentary notes, treatises and letters in English for the first time, supplementing and informing the texts published in volumes 1 and 2 of the series
Introduces the first translation into any language that is based on a critical and complete edition of Hemsterhuis' correspondence and unedited works
Forms a scholarly edition with full apparatus and commentaries that will elucidate the meaning of Hemsterhuis' texts
Includes introductory essays that cover the full range of subjects at stake in the texts by world-leading scholars of Dutch philosophy like Jonathan I. Israel and Henri A. Krop
A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism.
The first ever English translation of Fran ois 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 Fran ois 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and the Letter on Optics all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II.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.
Contents
Series Introduction
Jacob van Sluis and Daniel Whistler
Hemsterhuis's Life, Works and Reception
Abbreviations
Introductions
Atheism according to François Hemsterhuis: Convergences with and Divergences from the German Spinoza Controversy, Claudia Melica
Hemsterhuis and Newtonian Philosophy, Henri A. Krop
The Ubiquity of Vases in Hemsterhuis's Sketches and Drawings: Making Art in Philosophy, Doing Philosophy in Art, Peter Sonderen
Hemsterhuis as a European and trans-Atlantic Political Theorist, Jonathan I. Israel
Part One: Spinozism, Atheism and Religion
Letter on Fatalism
On Prayer
Letters on the History of Philosophy to Spinoza (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)
On Two Kinds of Theology
Letters on Knowing, Believing and Doubting (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)
Prelude to the Letter on Atheism
Letter on Atheism from Diocles to Diotima
Further Reflections on Spinoza and the Spinozism Controversy
Supplement to the Letter on Fatalism
Part Two: Epistemology and the Sciences
On the Reality of Appearances
On the Relations of Matter and Soul
Fragment on Physics
On Divisibility to Infinity
On the Incommensurable
On Loss of Imagination
An Analogy between the Formation of the Body and the Formation of the Soul
Letter on the Rotation of the Planets
On Final Causes
Prelude to the Letter on Optics
Letter on Optics
Part Three: Art and Style
Letters on Geometric Style (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)
On Geometric Education and Aesthetic Judgment
Letters on Hesiod and the Golden Age
On the Best Shape to Give to the Feet of Vases
Further Reflections on the Best Shape to Give to the Feet of Vases
On Plato's Style in the Phaedrus and the Symposium (and Racine's Phaedra)
Letters on Diderot's Style
Catechism for a Young Painter
On the Artworks of Central Germany
Letters on Plato and the Sublime (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)
On Architecture and Other Arts
On Reading Goethe's Werther
Part Four: Ethics and Politics
Letter on Virtues and Vices
On Fürstenberg's Character
On the Moral Organ
On Current Events in the Dutch Republic
Reflections on the Republic of the United Provinces
Preliminary Observations on the Constitution of the Republic of the United Provinces
On the Political Situation of the Dutch Republic
Alexis II, or on the Military
Sketch of Advice to the Council of State
On Patriotism
Letters on the French Revolution
Appendix
On the Genesis of Alexis II: The Metaphysics of the Military, Jacob van Sluis
