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Christian Garve's quarrels, rhetoric, and humanism

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The philosopher Christian Garve (1742-1798) is now largely forgotten. Some scholars apparently think that this was deserved. However, most will admit that Garve was also a victim of historical developments. He embraced a particular set of intellectual values; he regarded it as the philosopher’s duty to communicate with the public and do work of value to them. During and after his lifetime, this view came to be excluded from German intellectual culture. A very different set of values p...

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HUMS
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Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
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Arts and Humanities Research Council More from this funder
Alfred Toepfer Stiftung More from this funder
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford
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2019-03-12

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