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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies

• Full title: Dying with an Enlightening Fall
• Subtitle: Poland in the Eyes of German Intellectuals, 1764-1800
• Author: David Pickus
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780739101537
• ISBN: 0739101536
• ID: 04668394
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. February 2001

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