Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment - Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity

Jacobi held a position of unparalleled importance in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century intellectual history. This includes his role in bringing about the close of the Enlightenment, his central part in shaping the reception of Kant's philosophy and German idealism, and his influence on the development of Romanticism and existentialism.