Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers

by Friedrich Schleiermacher , Edited by Richard Crouter

• ISBN13: 9780521474481
• ISBN10: 0521474485
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This edition presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time. Richard Crouter's introduction places the work in the milieu of early German Romanticism, Kant criticism, the revival of Spinoza and Plato studies, and theories of literary criticism and of the physical sciences. This fully annotated edition also contains a chronology and notes on further reading.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
List of abbreviations	ix
Introduction	xi
Chronology	xl
Further reading	xlii
A note on editions	xliv
On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers	1	(124)
Apology	3	(15)
On the Essence of Religion	18	(37)
On Self-formation for Religion	55	(17)
On the Social Element in Religion; or, on Church and Priesthood	72	(23)
On the Religions	95	(30)
Index	125