Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy

The University of Göttingen was a product of the personal union between Great Britain and the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. As such, it established a British-German connection on an institutional level. Its library and its journal, the Göttingische Anzeigen, profited immensely from new and se...

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Main Author: Friederike Frenzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2022-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/9974
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Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy
XVII-XVIII
German Enlightenment
popular philosophy
eclecticism
Göttingen University
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
title Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy
title_full Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy
title_fullStr Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy
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title_short Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy
title_sort eclectic endeavours of 18th century popular philosophy
topic German Enlightenment
popular philosophy
eclecticism
Göttingen University
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
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