By Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
A key determine within the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had a big impression on philosophical notion within the later a part of the eighteenth century, significantly the way in which Kant was once got and the early improvement of post-Kantian idealism. this is often an English translation of Jacobi's significant literary and philosophical classics.
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