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Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens: Band 2 Januar 1782-Juni 1783

✍ Scribed by Reinhard Markner (editor); Monika Neugebauer-Wölk (editor); Hermann Schüttler (editor)

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Tongue
German
Leaves
748
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The fight for supremacy in the German and European Freemasonry is one of thecentral topics of this second volume of the correspondences of the Order of Illuminati. Another key element is the discord between the ‘Ordensgeneral’ Adam Weishaupt and his most important colleague Adolph Freiherr von Knigge. All of the letters are comprehensively annotated and indexed; most of them are now being published for the first time.

The first volume received positive critical attention: Der Spiegel attested that the editors have shed light on the atmospheres and struggles within the legendary secret society as precisely as no one before. The correspondence, wrote Der Spiegel, opens up a fascinating, yet very German story: a tragic comedy, made up of high aims, imaginations of power and loss of reality.

  • Letters of the secret society mostly published for the first time
  • Relevant source material for cultural history

✦ Table of Contents

Vorwort
Einleitung
Zur historischen Einführung
Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte
Edition
Anhang
I. Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen
II. Quellen, Literatur und Siglen
III. Errata & Addenda zu Bd. I
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