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**The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the Great** Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the first to make a wide range of Frederick’s most important ideas available to a modern English readership, moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only in light of his political aims. In these pages, we can finally appreciate Frederick’s influential contributions to the European Enlightenment—and his unusual role as a monarch who was also a published author. In addition to Frederick’s major opus, the __Anti-Machiavel__, the works presented here include essays, prefaces, reviews, and dialogues. The subjects discussed run the gamut from ethics to religion to political theory. Accompanied by critical annotations, the texts show that we can understand Frederick’s views of kingship and the state only if we engage with a broad spectrum of his thought, including his attitudes toward m

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Author

Frederick II (editor); Avi Lifschitz (editor); Angela Scholar (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691189369

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Political Science