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Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
1 Cheap Prints, Dialogues of the Dead, Pamphlets: The Anonymous World of the Early 18th-Century German Book Trade
2 The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment (1729-1734): An Unknown Corpus of Sources
Chapter 1 From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
1 Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-180/192 ce): The Νεκρικοτ̔̈”ΑΕ· διτ̔̈”Α ·λογοι
2 Fontenelle: The Nouveaux dialogues des morts (1683)
3 David Fassmann: The Gespräche im Reiche der Toten (1718-1739)
Chapter 2 The Examen Rigorosum
1 The Judgment of Apollo
2 The Business of "Pirated Editions"
3 Student Rivalries
Chapter 3 The War of the Biographers
1 The Pietist Front: Christian Gerber and the Historia derer Wiedergebohrnen in Sachsen
2 The First Literary Depictions of the Lives of Christian Thomasius and August Hermann Francke
3 The World of the Copper Engravers
4 The Harsh Laws of Competition
5 Eulogies, Dialogues of the Dead, (Auto)Biographies: The "Instability" of Literary Genres
Chapter 4 The Wolffian Leibniz
1 S. W.
2 The Argument with Johann Franz Budde
3 Eclecticism, the Mathematical Method, Atheism
4 How Many Authors?
Chapter 5 The Two Faces of Leibniz
1 1745: Leibniz Becomes the Protagonist of a Dialogue of the Dead Once Again
2 The Conversation with Ludwig Philipp Thümmig
3 Gottsched, Mylius, Hagedorn, the "Swiss" Poets: The Disputes of the 1740s
Chapter 6 The Argument between Descartes and Rüdiger
1 Arriving among the Stars
2 Descartes as a Wolffian Philosopher
3 Pietism and Materialism
4 The Background of the Dialogue
5 Role Play
Chapter 7 The Restoration of All Things
1 Prefaces to Dialogues of the Dead: The Dialogue between Mayer and Petersen
2 Ἀποκαττ̔̈”Α ·στασις πτ̔̈”Α ·ντων: Origen, Leibniz, and Petersen.
Chapter 8 Balthasar Bekker's Remorse
1 The Exorcism on Peter Otte
2 Cartesianism and Demonology in 18th-Century Germany
3 The Pact with the Devil
4 More on the Engravers: The Identity of "M. B."
5 Some Deliberations on the Origin, Authorship, and Dissemination of the Dialogue
6 Necromancy and Conversations in the Realm of Spirits
Conclusion
1 The "Underworlds" of the Dialogues of the Dead: Which Level of Clandestineness?
2 Four Reasons for Anonymity
3 "Material" Evidence and Intellectual History
4 The Question of Authorship
Bibliography
Index.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
1 Cheap Prints, Dialogues of the Dead, Pamphlets: The Anonymous World of the Early 18th-Century German Book Trade
2 The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment (1729-1734): An Unknown Corpus of Sources
Chapter 1 From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
1 Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-180/192 ce): The Νεκρικοτ̔̈”ΑΕ· διτ̔̈”Α ·λογοι
2 Fontenelle: The Nouveaux dialogues des morts (1683)
3 David Fassmann: The Gespräche im Reiche der Toten (1718-1739)
Chapter 2 The Examen Rigorosum
1 The Judgment of Apollo
2 The Business of "Pirated Editions"
3 Student Rivalries
Chapter 3 The War of the Biographers
1 The Pietist Front: Christian Gerber and the Historia derer Wiedergebohrnen in Sachsen
2 The First Literary Depictions of the Lives of Christian Thomasius and August Hermann Francke
3 The World of the Copper Engravers
4 The Harsh Laws of Competition
5 Eulogies, Dialogues of the Dead, (Auto)Biographies: The "Instability" of Literary Genres
Chapter 4 The Wolffian Leibniz
1 S. W.
2 The Argument with Johann Franz Budde
3 Eclecticism, the Mathematical Method, Atheism
4 How Many Authors?
Chapter 5 The Two Faces of Leibniz
1 1745: Leibniz Becomes the Protagonist of a Dialogue of the Dead Once Again
2 The Conversation with Ludwig Philipp Thümmig
3 Gottsched, Mylius, Hagedorn, the "Swiss" Poets: The Disputes of the 1740s
Chapter 6 The Argument between Descartes and Rüdiger
1 Arriving among the Stars
2 Descartes as a Wolffian Philosopher
3 Pietism and Materialism
4 The Background of the Dialogue
5 Role Play
Chapter 7 The Restoration of All Things
1 Prefaces to Dialogues of the Dead: The Dialogue between Mayer and Petersen
2 Ἀποκαττ̔̈”Α ·στασις πτ̔̈”Α ·ντων: Origen, Leibniz, and Petersen.
Chapter 8 Balthasar Bekker's Remorse
1 The Exorcism on Peter Otte
2 Cartesianism and Demonology in 18th-Century Germany
3 The Pact with the Devil
4 More on the Engravers: The Identity of "M. B."
5 Some Deliberations on the Origin, Authorship, and Dissemination of the Dialogue
6 Necromancy and Conversations in the Realm of Spirits
Conclusion
1 The "Underworlds" of the Dialogues of the Dead: Which Level of Clandestineness?
2 Four Reasons for Anonymity
3 "Material" Evidence and Intellectual History
4 The Question of Authorship
Bibliography
Index.