Research Catalog

Title

Between natives and foreigners : selected writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840) / edited with an introduction by Frank Mehring.

Author

Follen, Charles, 1796-1840.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mehring, Frank, 1970-

Description

xlii, 479 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Karl/Charles Follen has not only been described as a dangerous revolutionary, but he has also been praised as the emblematic representative of German philosophical idealism and theological liberalism. This edition introduces, for the first time, a broad selection of Follen's controversial writings, emphasizing the multilingual dimension of his oeuvre in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. His essays, lectures, sermons, speeches, and poems concern the challenges of democracy in the socio-political climate of the political Vormarz in Germany and the Jacksonian era in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

New directions in German American studies, 1524-7813 ; v. 4

Uniform Title

New directions in German American studies ; v. 4.

Subjects

• Philology, Modern
• German philology
• Germanists > Correspondence
• Follen, Charles, 1796-1840 > Correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-472) and index.

Language (note)

• English and German.

Contents

I. Writings in Germany -- 1. Ehrenspiegel der Burschenschaft zu Giessen -- 2. Beitrage zur Geschichte der teutschen Sammtschulen -- 3. Grundzuge fur eine kunftige teutsche Reichsverfassung -- 4. Das Grosse Lied -- 5. Die Grundung einer deutsch-amerikanischen Universitat -- 6. Gedichte -- 7. Briefe -- II. Writings in Switzerland -- 8. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift : Grundsatz -- 9. Uber die Bestimmung des Menschen -- 10. Uber die Rechtslehre des Spinoza -- 11. Kodex des Junglingbundes -- 12. Gedichte -- 13. Briefe -- III. Writings in the United States of America -- Education and literature -- 14. Deutsches Lesebuch fur Anfanger/German reader for beginners -- 15. A practical grammar of the German language -- 16. Inaugural discourse -- 17. Luther's German version of the Gospel of St. John -- 18. Plan of the Boston seminary -- 19. Thomas Carlyle's The life of Schiller -- 20. Lecture I : The life of Schiller -- 21. Lecture X : dramatic sketches -- 22. Poetry -- Slavery and democracy -- 23. Lectures on moral philosophy : no. XIII -- 24. Address to the people of the United States on the subject of slavery -- 25. Speech before the anti-slavery society -- 26. The cause of freedom in our country -- 27. Anti-slavery principles and proceedings -- 28. Consistent democracy -- History and religion -- 29. History -- 30. On the future state of man -- 31. Benjamin constant's work on religion -- 32. Sermon XI : "be ye perfect, even as your father, which is in heaven, is perfect" -- 33. Religion and the church -- 34. Peace and war -- Letters -- 35. An Christian sartorius -- 36. An die Familie -- 37. To President John Quincy Adams -- 38. To Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 39. To Harriet Martineau -- 40. To William Ellery Channing.

ISBN

• 9780820497327 (alk. paper)
• 0820497320 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007018974

OCLC

• 124036334
• SCSB-5356418

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries