Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History by Johann Georg Sulzer
Product Specifications
- Title: Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History by Johann Georg Sulzer
- Author: Johann Georg Sulzer
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- The arts general issues
- No. of pages: 148
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 215 x 145 x 12
Product Description
Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology philosophy natural history and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid informative and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.